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Digital Storytelling: The Narrative Power of Visual Effects in Film (The MIT Pre
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- Artist
- McClean, Shilo T. T
- ISBN
- 9780262633697
- Book Title
- Digital Storytelling : the Narrative Power of Visual Effects in Film
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Genre
- Photography, Technology & Engineering, Computers, Performing Arts
- Topic
- Film / General, Digital Media / Video & Animation, Film / Screenwriting, Electronics / Digital, Film / History & Criticism, Techniques / Cinematography & Videography
- Item Width
- 7.1in
- Item Weight
- 18 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 318 Pages
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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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Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262633698
ISBN-13
9780262633697
eBay Product ID (ePID)
66031269
Product Key Features
Book Title
Digital Storytelling : the Narrative Power of Visual Effects in Film
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Film / General, Digital Media / Video & Animation, Film / Screenwriting, Electronics / Digital, Film / History & Criticism, Techniques / Cinematography & Videography
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Photography, Technology & Engineering, Computers, Performing Arts
Number of Pages
318 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
7.1in
Item Weight
18 Oz
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Pn1996
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College Graduate Student
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"Shilo T. McClean, in her Digital Storytelling: The Narrative Power ofVisual Effects in Film, agrees with much of what we have claimed about the survival ofclassical filmmaking... She builds upon our case by examining systematically and imaginatively thequestion of whether digital special effects support narrative interest. McClean convincinglydemonstrates that DVFx (digital visual effects), as she terms them, are used in an enormous varietyof ways, and most of these help to tell classically constructed stories.... McClean asks questionsof aesthetic import, and she treats films as artworks -- some good, some bad, but all to be takenseriously as evidence for her case." Kristin Thompson David Bordwell'sWebsite on Cinema, "Shilo T. McClean, in her Digital Storytelling: The Narrative Power of Visual Effects in Film,agrees with much of what we have claimed about the survival of classical filmmaking ... She builds upon our case by examining systematically and imaginatively the question of whether digital special effects support narrative interest. McClean convincingly demonstrates that DVFx (digital visual effects), as she terms them, are used in an enormous variety of ways, and most of these help to tell classically constructed stories.... McClean asks questions of aesthetic import, and she treats films as artworks-some good, some bad, but all to be taken seriously as evidence for her case." - Kristin Thompson, David Bordwell's Website on Cinema, Shilo T. McClean, in her Digital Storytelling: The Narrative Power of Visual Effects in Film, agrees with much of what we have claimed about the survival of classical filmmaking.... She builds upon our case by examining systematically and imaginatively the question of whether digital special effects support narrative interest. McClean convincingly demonstrates that DVFx (digital visual effects), as she terms them, are used in an enormous variety of ways, and most of these help to tell classically constructed stories.... McClean asks questions of aesthetic import, and she treats films as artworks--some good, some bad, but all to be taken seriously as evidence for her case., "Shilo T. McClean, in her Digital Storytelling: The Narrative Power of Visual Effects in Film, agrees with much of what we have claimed about the survival of classical filmmaking... She builds upon our case by examining systematically and imaginatively the question of whether digital special effects support narrative interest. McClean convincingly demonstrates that DVFx (digital visual effects), as she terms them, are used in an enormous variety of ways, and most of these help to tell classically constructed stories.... McClean asks questions of aesthetic import, and she treats films as artworks -- some good, some bad, but all to be taken seriously as evidence for her case." Kristin Thompson David Bordwell's Website on Cinema, Shilo T. McClean, in her Digital Storytelling: The Narrative Power of Visual Effects in Film, agrees with much of what we have claimed about the survival of classical filmmaking.... She builds upon our case by examining systematically and imaginatively the question of whether digital special effects support narrative interest. McClean convincingly demonstrates that DVFx (digital visual effects), as she terms them, are used in an enormous variety of ways, and most of these help to tell classically constructed stories.... McClean asks questions of aesthetic import, and she treats films as artworks -- some good, some bad, but all to be taken seriously as evidence for her case.
Copyright Date
2007
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
791.4302/4
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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