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Digital storytelling : the narrative power of visual effects in film
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Digital storytelling : the narrative power of visual effects in film

Author: Shilo T McClean
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
McClean, Shilo T.
Digital storytelling.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007
(OCoLC)745697102
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Shilo T McClean
ISBN: 0262134659 9780262134651 0262633698 9780262633697
OCLC Number: 64957264
Description: xii, 303 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. The bastard spawn : Hollywood computer-generated-effects movies-some introductory comments --
2. Once upon a time : story and storycraft --
3. I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that : the technology of digital visual effects --
4. Trick or treat : a framework for the narrative uses of digital visual effects in film --
5. If you are falling, leap : the hero's journey --
6. The teller and the tale : the "Chinese whispers" of adaptation --
7. It goes like this : the relationship between digital visual effects and genre --
8. So here's the deal : a case study considering the influence of franchise filmmaking and its relationship to digital visual effects --
9. ET 2 AI : Steven Spielberg --
10. Somewhere over the rainbow : imagined worlds and visions of the future realized through digital visual effects --
11. Byting off more than you can Chewbacca : summary and conclusions.
Responsibility: Shilo T. McClean.

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How digital visual effects in film can be used to support storytelling: a guide for scriptwriters and students.  Read more...

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