COLLECTION NAME:
Graduate Thesis Collection
Record
Title:
The Cinematic Language of Cyclical Narrative Variability
Creator:
Thirkell, Ian Parker
Subject:
Thesis (M.F.A.) -- Visual Effects
Subject:
Savannah College of Art and Design -- Department of Visual Effects
Rights:
Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Abstract:
"A cyclical construction of film creates a storytelling apparatus which is flexible, modular, and efficient to a degree not found in a linear narrative format. Such changes to narrative structure have the potential to increase audience engagement with the narrative, and allow a greater range of narrative techniques. Cyclical narrative variability is a method of introducing elements of nonlinear variation into the linear structure of conventional cinematic language. This will establish a methodology for introducing the element of controlled variability into a linear film structure using contemporary software platforms."
Abstract:
*Includes the author's narrated tutorial providing a "workflow for creating a cyclical narrative in Unreal Engine 4.21"--From film audio
Abstract:
*Keywords: cinema, narrative, variable, linear, non-linear
Publisher:
Savannah, Georgia : Savannah College of Art and Design
Date:
2019-11
Format:
PDF : 26 pages, color illustrations + 1 filmed tutorial (approximatley 8 min.) : WMV, sound, color