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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 class

Author

Shilo T. McClean

Publisher

The MIT Press; MIT Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262633697

Subjects

Performing Arts, Photography, History