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Screenlife Films
Screenlife or computer screen film is a genre of Visual narrative, visual storytelling where all the events are shown on a computer, tablet or smartphone screen. It became popular in the 2010s with the growing impact of the Internet. According to Timur Bekmambetov, the Russian-Kazakh director and producer, a computer screen film should take place on one specific screen, never move outside of the screen, the camerawork should resemble the behavior of the device's camera, all the action should take place in real time, without any visible transitions and all the sounds should originate from the computer. There have, however, also been movies that switch between screens and still categorized as screenlife. After producing one of the first mainstream feature-length computer screen films, ''Unfriended,'' in 2014, Bekmambetov popularized screenlife as a narrative device in film. Features Screenlife video displays only a desktop of a computer or smartphone and actions of the main chara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Visual Narrative
A visual narrative (also visual storytelling) is a story told primarily through the use of visual media. The story may be told using still photography, illustration, or video, and can be enhanced with graphics, music, voice and other audio. Overview The term "visual narrative" has been used to describe several genres of visual storytelling, from news and information (photojournalism, the photo essay, the documentary film) to entertainment (art, movies, television, comic books, the graphic novel). In short, any kind of a story, told visually, is a visual narrative. The visual narrative has also been of interest to the academic community as scholars, thinkers and educators have sought to understand the impact and power of image and narrative in individuals and societies. The corresponding discipline is called visual narratology Narratology is the study of narrative and narrative structure and the ways that these affect human perception. It is an anglicisation of French ''narrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |