Digital storytelling : the narrative power of visual effects in film / Shilo T. McClean.

"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 st...

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Main Author: McClean, Shilo T.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007.
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Summary:"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
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 303 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-287) and index.
ISBN:9780262304184
026230418X
1280499079
9781280499074
9786613594303
661359430X
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/2432.001.0001
Language:English.
Reproduction Note:Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.
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