Monday, March 21, 2011

Surrealism was the art movement fascinated in visual creating, in a tangible way, ones subconscious. Ones thoughts, memories, ideas, and overall ones mind, in a visually stimulating form (painting, drawing, sculpture, etcetera etcetera).

A huge focus was that of dream lik states or image transition/manipulation, and we have seen many references of surrealism in modern movies and what not.

like MC Escher's stairs are quite similar to the stairs in harry potter





However, Surrealism is now playing a major part in video games, and how, in the TRAILERS!!

every trailer is designed to capture the viewers attention, and keep them entertained and awed long enough so that the viewer wants more of said game, and the only way to get more, go out and buy the game.

look at these trailers:


 Take the newly announced "Bioshock Infinite," the second sequel to the exceptional "Bioshock" role-playing series. Without explanation or a line of dialogue, we take in a riveting first-person view of being tossed out a window to view another in a series of eerie retro-futurist worlds that have become a signature of the series. These games are about an alternate American history of steampunk machinery and crackpot Ayn Rand-style despots in mid-20th century.
The trailer doesn't try to tell the story, which is not to say there isn't art here. It comes in the form of environments, alternate worlds dense with detail and texture. The trailer gets that and communicates not what the game is about so much as what it will feel like.






Likewise "Mafia II," expresses the game's noir grittiness. A single tracking shot comprises the spot, a move that Scorsese himself would endorse. But in this case the frantic action is all rendered by the game engine as we zoom in surreal fashion through some of the game's major episode, all to the song stylings of the incomparable Dean Martin's "Kick in the Head."






Good game trailers are the ones that promote, the style, game play, and franchise (if any) of that game in an aesthetically leasing manner. GREAT trailers are the ones that throw you off of your horse and make you wonder what the hell it is you just saw.

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