Animation and visual effects subtext in motion picture narration

Even though the three-act narrative structure which is the basic screenwriting guide gives some principles in screenwriting for motion picture. The act, for scores and decades has became a normative or rule of thumb for screenwriters and has been adapted by almost all major motion picture industries across the world, for narrative creativity thereof; motion picture producers rearrange the acts in telling their story. The three-act narrative doesn't constitute the totality of story narration, dialogue, camera angles and shots, sound, costume complement in subtexts communication to audience and it has been the practice was employed for years until technological novelties gradually brought paradigm shift of subtext communication to a technique known as visual effects. This paper empirically discusses the metaphorical use of visual effects in narrative communication. Special reference were made to selected motion picture productions as well as journal publication to substantiate the goals and claims of this research paper, the future of visual effects and its efficaciousness in comparison to sound and traditional camera angles in narrations.