Digital Images and Their Signification Process in Nollywood Films Narratives: A Theoretical Perspective

Abstract

This paper theorized the way digital images such as Visual effects, Computer Generated Images, Animated images are manipulated in film narratives. With the need for continuity editing in construction of visual narratives, it appeared that the digital effects are manipulated and infused in a narrative in a way it communicates visual message and Igbo cultural ideologies. Therefore application of digital images in a narrative is dependent on the mode in which it is constructed to represent the ideologies to be construed. This paper looked at the meaning making process of digital effects applied in select films, hinging this study on semiotic theory to explain the communicative impact visual in film narrative and technical possibilities in this 21st century.