Description How Digital Visual Effects in Film can be used to support Storytelling: a guide for scriptwriters and students.
She has worked as a writer, producer, director, and script editor..
Mc Clean is a consultant in storybuilding and Digital Visual effects.
About the Author Shilo T.
They are, she writes, the legitimate inheritors of Film storycraft.
Mc Clean argues that to consider Digital Visual Effects as simply contributing the "wow" factor underestimates them.
Mc Clean 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.
Digital Storytelling is grounded in filmmaking, the scriptwriting process in particular.
Digital Effects are a part of production, not post-production; they are becoming part of the story development process.
Effects artists say--contrary to the critics--that Effects always derive from story.
It is time, she says, to rethink the function of Digital Visual effects.
In Digital Storytelling, Shilo Mc Clean 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.
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.
Computer-generated Effects are often blamed for bad Hollywood movies.
Description How Digital Visual Effects in Film can be used to support Storytelling: a guide for scriptwriters and students
