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A day in the life of a narrative designer

Game Global

They’re related, but the difference is this: A game writer’s primary responsibility is to promote the story that the game tells through the scripts they write. We must understand (and preferably help create and document) the game as a whole: from core mechanics to level design to cinematics, and everything in between.

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Essential editing transitions - explained

Filmustage

Leave the boring pre-production routine to the Filmustage - automatic script breakdown - and focus on your creativity! This deception lies in the fact that cinematic language must force the viewer into the veracity of what is on the screen. Like a lot of filmmaking, it just becomes complex depending on how it's used.

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Violence, neon and retro-wave: what demon is inside of Nicholas Winding Refn pt. 2

Filmustage

Well, the storytelling is kind of sketchy and I was thinking I'm watching a clip in the form of a movie. Besides the fact that it's just incredibly beautiful and cinematic, the amount of light in this shot makes it clear to which emotional state the protagonist is. He creates scripts according to the music he would like to use.

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Not at all silent Kevin Smith

Filmustage

This clip is just hilarious and you gotta watch it! View Askewniverse View Askewniverse is a cinematic universe created by Kevin Smith in which the plot of the director's main films unfolds: "Clerks." , "Clerks 2", "Mallrats" , etc. is a sincere declaration of love for pop culture and freedom. We're talking about cinema here.

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Call of Duty: Online is dead. Long live Call of Duty: Online!

Deconstructor of Fun

As a consequence, most Chinese players had only played CoD offline campaigns, since there were no official servers running in China, and their experience of the franchise was less around the twitch-y FPS brand CoD was known for, and more about cinematic single player missions.

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Paul Thomas Anderson: subtle genius or bold innovator

Filmustage

Each director has a different idea of how the script will look on the screen. Visualise how you see all the elements in your script with Filmustage's Visual Reference board. A similar mix of long-form and clip shots imprinted Anderson early in his career, but it's impossible to argue that this one is stuck inside his style.

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Bong Joon-ho: the mastery of transnational directing

Filmustage

It seems to have been overlooked and for nothing, as it has given us so many cinematic masterpieces. In "Parasite" we can see a distinctly Hollywood image, from which the viewer builds certain expectations of the film, but the further the film goes, the more we realise that this is an entirely new cinematic experience.

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