Digital Storytelling
The Narrative Power of Visual Effects in Film
$70.86
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
26 September 2008
Summary
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 McCle…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262633697 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262633698 |
| Author: | Shilo T. McClean |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 26 September 2008 |
| Weight: | 522g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 14mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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Critics Review
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 CinemaAbout The Author
Shilo T. McClean
Shilo T. McClean is a consultant in storybuilding and digital visual effects. She has worked as a writer, producer, director, and script editor.
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