How Games Can Tell Stories, Indirectly. Narrative Design Explained:
122One of the greatest challenges when it comes to the narrative is figuring out on how to impress the audience effectively as early as possible – these can be the first paragraph of a book or the first cut of a film, and video games are no exception.
Throughout the history of video games, we have witnessed all kinds of approaches in intro sequences and cinematics, but out there are only a few intro sequences that have been able to translate its theme through cinematic language, and one of them is the opening cinematics of Shadow of the Colossus.
Hi, my name is Eddy, welcome to Angkasa Studio, and this is Critical Breakdown.
Cinematic language is a method for which motion pictures communicate with the viewer. It’s the tone of color in the overall movie that gives the feeling of dread or excitement or even artificial such as the Matrix.
The use of lighting to either guide the eyes of the viewer or illuminates a scene to evoke certain emotions. Camera angles would translate to the viewers to either empower, weakened, intimidate, it puts the viewers to the shoes of the characters in the scene. An intricate mixture of all these compositions would work together to create what most filmmakers called Mies En Scene.
But there is one particular cinematic language that is being expertly used in the opening sequence of shadow, and that is the Lateral Movement of both the character and the camera. In motion pictures, characters in the frame will often be directed to either move to the left or to the right.
But do not misunderstand this for something that is being done consciously by the character. A director will decide the lateral movement of a character based on a multitude of reasons. But why do lateral movements matter?
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Shadow of the Colossus Intro Cinematics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-eiJHiLhOs
Discover Video Games Visual Composition: Rule of Thirds, and Cinematography - Shadow of the Colossus :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd9HoH7iZJI
Narrative and Morality Through Gameplay Mechanics - Shadow of the Colossus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igz2C8DTmyw
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