Movies that have the immersion factor!

Over the past couple of days I have stepped back from researching immersion in video games and I have been looking at movies! I have looked into movies that are animated to just real life movies but I found that mainly movies that are animated have that immersion factor more because when making a animated movie, the possibilities are endless in what you can do compared to a real life movie.

Any Pixar movie has the immersion factor spot on. Pixar make cars talk or toys talk and people love this because of how it's done. Pixar also have beautiful visuals which are colourful and bold and so this stands out to the watcher and so they become immersed even more. Anything that is a still object or item that can talk in a Pixar movie would not work in real life, for example all the toys from toy story, but because of the charm the characters or objects have, the watchers become immune to the believability side of it. This is were the realism trap comes in, just because it looks real, doesn't mean it's believable.  

In some Pixar movies there is just normal human being characters that would work in real life however it's then what happens in the movie to knock the believability side off. For example, "Up" is a Pixar movie about two people falling in love and the woman who has a dream of going to live ontop of this mountain next to a waterfall, so far it's believable. Anyway the woman passes away and the man feels like he needs to fulfil his wife's dream. To do this, he attaches thousands of balloons to his house and his house floats all the way to this exotic place. That's were you think that wouldn't happen it's impossible! But because the movie has a moving story line and the visuals are just amazing, nobody cares and they are instantly immersed by this flying balloon house. 

This immersion can happen as well in some real life movies that also have animation put into them. Films such as Narnia and Transformers are all are set in the real life world but when the animation side comes in, again anything is possible and you get things like talking animals that are in Naria, or you have giant robots that can transform into cars. This animation has that real life visual style to it so it looks like it's actually in our real life world as opposed to Pixar, their movies are all done in cartoon visual style. 

What I have gathered from this research is, anything that is unusual, stands out and just doesn't make sense in the real world, works for watchers and that is what gets them so immersed.  This can then be the same for video games as again anything is possible in games and if done correctly just like Pixar movies, the player will instantly become immersed and be excited.