Mundo Bita: Estudo de caso da trilha sonora e relações com as infâncias

Abstract

Mundo Bita is an animation made in Pernambuco that is being very widespread among children, being present in several environments, such as Netflix and Youtube. What messages does this animation lead to the child? What can it teach? This work seeks to answer such questions through a case study, analyzing Bita and the Animals. This research is based mainly on the songs of this production. To accomplish that, a bibliographic research was made. To support this study, I presented both a history of childhood in the world and a brief account of the historical process of childhood in Brazil, ending with the perspective of childhood today. It was also exposed a little of the historical process of animation in the world and in Brazil, how it grew and how the production is currently made. In addition, audiovisual features focused on audio, such as music and effects, its benefits for children and society were pointed out. To conclude, I explained what the Mundo Bita was, its characters, how the production was developed, the initial ideas and the plans to take the animation to another level in the future. That said, it was possible to perform a critical analysis of the songs proposed in the first DVD of Mundo Bita, Bita and the Animals, presenting the lyrics of each song and discussing the possible interpretation and its benefits to children. To assist in this study were used quality criteria proposed by Sampaio and Cavalcante (2012). As a result, it was seen that there are important points to work with children, that do not have as much power in Mundo Bita, needing improvements. This demonstrated that Brazilian animations have potential and can bring great benefits to children but can still improve and that is why they need to receive more and more incentives to increase Brazilian production.