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Digital Storytelling - The Narrative Power of Visual Effects in Film (Paperback)
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Digital Storytelling - The Narrative Power of Visual Effects in Film (Paperback)
Series: The MIT Press
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How digital visual effects in film can be used to support
storytelling: a guide for scriptwriters and students.
Computer-generated effects are often blamed for bad Hollywood
movies. Yet when a critic complains that "technology swamps
storytelling" (in a review of Van Helsing, calling it "an example
of everything that is wrong with Hollywood computer-generated
effects movies"), it says more about the weakness of the story than
the strength of the technology. In Digital Storytelling, Shilo
McClean shows how digital visual effects can be a tool of
storytelling in film, adding narrative power as do sound, color,
and "experimental" camera angles-other innovative film technologies
that were once criticized for being distractions from the story. It
is time, she says, to rethink the function of digital visual
effects. Effects artists say-contrary to the critics-that effects
always derive from story. Digital effects are a part of production,
not post-production; they are becoming part of the story
development process. Digital Storytelling is grounded in
filmmaking, the scriptwriting process in particular. McClean
considers crucial questions about digital visual effects-whether
they undermine classical storytelling structure, if they always
call attention to themselves, whether their use is limited to
certain genres-and looks at contemporary films (including a
chapter-long analysis of Steven Spielberg's use of
computer-generated effects) and contemporary film theory to find
the answers. McClean argues that to consider digital visual effects
as simply contributing the "wow" factor underestimates them. They
are, she writes, the legitimate inheritors of film storycraft.
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