TY - CHAP
T1 - Shot scale and viewers’ responses to characters in animated films
AU - Balint, Katalin
AU - Rooney, Brendan
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - This chapter focuses on a key feature of visualization, namely shot scale, a formal feature of the moving image through which animation designers can regulate the apparent distance and size of objects on screen. It reviews the findings of a series of experiments on the effect of various aspects of close-ups on theory-of-mind responding in viewers of animated films. In order to understand the effect of close-ups on viewers' responses to animated narratives, the chapter presents a model of the process of narrative comprehension. The empirical studies of visualization have been lacking a comprehensive framework that integrates formal features, narrative processing, and viewers' responses. Experimental methods are rarely used in film and animation studies, although they can provide scholars with important insights. Seeing the story with a closer visual-spatial proximity to the characters brings the mind and consciousness of the characters into the foreground of the narrative experience.
AB - This chapter focuses on a key feature of visualization, namely shot scale, a formal feature of the moving image through which animation designers can regulate the apparent distance and size of objects on screen. It reviews the findings of a series of experiments on the effect of various aspects of close-ups on theory-of-mind responding in viewers of animated films. In order to understand the effect of close-ups on viewers' responses to animated narratives, the chapter presents a model of the process of narrative comprehension. The empirical studies of visualization have been lacking a comprehensive framework that integrates formal features, narrative processing, and viewers' responses. Experimental methods are rarely used in film and animation studies, although they can provide scholars with important insights. Seeing the story with a closer visual-spatial proximity to the characters brings the mind and consciousness of the characters into the foreground of the narrative experience.
UR - https://www.routledge.com/Emotion-in-Animated-Films/Uhrig/p/book/9781138303287
U2 - 10.4324/9780203731253-9
DO - 10.4324/9780203731253-9
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781138303287
SN - 9780367584771
T3 - Routledge Advances in Film Studies
SP - 162
EP - 180
BT - Emotion in Animated Films
A2 - Uhrig, Meike
PB - Routledge
CY - New York
ER -