Story telling is an art continuing from times immemorial.
Each story has its individual essence that is preserved by the one who passes
it on or narrates it. Only if the narrator has the freedom to tell the story
with larger than life expressions and imitation will do justice to it.
Visual effects best ows the story teller with this freedom
to tell his story his way! Film makers started making use of this technique
since early 1900’s to make their imagination come alive.
Almost all Hollywood movies make use of the advanced visual
effects techniques available now. The use of visual effects is not only
restricted to science fiction or fantasy movies it can very well be made use of
in all genres of movies.
Visual effects come handy and are very important when there
is one or more than one of the following situations is to be taken care of:
* obscuring certain objects
* create total
virtual set up
* create or change
the back ground
* add or remove
actors or objects
* project speed
changes
* add or change eye
effects
* build sets that are
impossible to be built in real
* expand the existing
set
What makes visual effects important, very important?
Visual effects have empowered a movie maker with all the
freedom in the world to successfully convert a story of even his wildest
imagination into a movie. There is nothing that can stop a director from
directing whatever on earth or beyond that he wishes to.
Visual effects add locations, stunts, sets etc in a movie
giving an edge to the movie. More often than not the box office hits are movies
that made use of visual effect techniques.
Visual effects though not very cheap are relatively cheaper
than their substitute. For instance it would undoubtedly be more expensive to
make an actual plane crash for a scene in a movie than projecting one using
superior visual effect programming.
It helps save on time as well. The requirement of a king’s
palace in the movie does not only need money it demands hell lot of time as
well. Can a director afford to invest so much of time before starting the
shoot!
Do you have a choice? If you want to let your imagination
unfurl you have to make use of visual effects. It is not possible to show
dragons and aliens and other impossible things without the aide of various
visual effect tools.
