Author(s)

Siyu Long ¹, Won-Ho Choi ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Department of Visual Contents, Dongseo University, Busan, Republic of Korea

Corresponding Author

Siyu Long

ABSTRACT

For the movie audience, visual spectacle construction can sometimes strengthen the emotion and plot in the movie through incredible or shocking visual effects, deepen the emotional connection between the audience and the movie characters, make the audience easier to empathize and feel empathy, and satisfy the audience's "curiosity" psychology of the unknown world. Film digital effects play a key role in creating visual wonders. Through the use of digital technology and visual effects to create compelling and breathtaking scenes and plots, satisfy the audience's desire for visual spectacle. Such as the film "Avatar", through digital effects to create a beautiful planet Pandora, bringing the audience into an incomparable and bizarre fantasy world. This article will take the movie "Avatar" as an example to discuss the spectacle construction in the digital effects movie.

KEYWORDS

Digital effects, visual spectacle, simulacrum

CITE THIS PAPER

Siyu Long, Won-Ho Choi, A Study on visual spectacle construction in digital effects movies—A case study of "Avatar". Art and Performance Letters (2024) Vol. 5: 188-193. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/artpl.2024.050125.

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