
Fast Forward
The Future(s) of the Cinematic Arts
Holly Willis(Author)
Wallflower Press
Published on 16. August 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-231-17893-8 (ISBN)
Description
Cinema, the primary vehicle for storytelling in the twentieth century, is being reconfigured by new media in the twenty-first. Terms such as "worldbuilding," "virtual reality," and "transmedia" introduce new methods for constructing a screenplay and experiencing and sharing a story. Similarly, 3D cinematography, hypercinema, and visual effects require different modes for composing an image, and virtual technology, motion capture, and previsualization completely rearrange the traditional flow of cinematic production. What does this mean for telling stories? Fast Forward answers this question by investigating a full range of contemporary creative practices dedicated to the future of mediated storytelling and by connecting with a new generation of filmmakers, screenwriters, technologists, media artists, and designers to discover how they work now, and toward what end.
From Chris Milk and Aaron Koblin's exploration of VR spherical filmmaking to Rebeca Mendez's projection and installation work exploring climate change to the richly mediated interactive live performances of the collective Cloud Eye Control, this volume captures a moment of creative evolution and sets the stage for imagining the future of the cinematic arts.
From Chris Milk and Aaron Koblin's exploration of VR spherical filmmaking to Rebeca Mendez's projection and installation work exploring climate change to the richly mediated interactive live performances of the collective Cloud Eye Control, this volume captures a moment of creative evolution and sets the stage for imagining the future of the cinematic arts.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Columbia University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
298 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-231-17893-8 (9780231178938)
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Holly Willis is a faculty member in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. She is the author of New Digital Cinema: Reinventing the Moving Image, the editor of The New Ecology of Things, and the cofounder of Filmmaker Magazine, dedicated to independent filmmaking.
Content
Acknowledgments Introduction: The State of Things 1. Past, Present, Future: Situating Post-Cinema 2. New Practices / New Paradigms 3. Live Cinema 4. Urban Screens / Screened Urbanism 5. Books to Watch, Films to Read, Stories to Touch: New Interfaces for Storytelling 6. Virtual Reality and the Networked Self Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index