Digital Storytelling
Subtitle: The Narrative Power of Visual Effects in Film
Publisher: The MIT Press; MIT Press
Published: January 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780262134651
Subjects: Applications of Computing; Films, cinema; Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Cinema/Film: Book; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Media Studies; Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism; Cinematography; Digital cinematography; Digital video; Special effects
Description: "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." "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."--Jacket.