The Visual Story
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The Visual Story

Creating the Visual Structure of Film, TV, and Digital Media

Bruce Block

  1. 340 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Visual Story

Creating the Visual Structure of Film, TV, and Digital Media

Bruce Block

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About This Book

This updated edition of a best-selling classic shows you how to structure your visuals as carefully as a writer structures a story or composers structure their music. The Visual Story teaches you how to design and control the structure of your production using the basic visual components of space, line, shape, tone, color, movement, and rhythm. You can use these components to effectively convey moods and emotions, create a visual style, and utilize the important relationship between the visual and the story structures.

Using over 700 color illustrations, author Bruce Block explains how understanding the connection between story and visual structures will guide you in the selection of camera angles, lenses, actor staging, composition, set design and locations, lighting, storyboard planning, camera coverage, and editing.

The Visual Story is an ideal blend of theory and practice. The concepts and examples in this new edition will benefit students learning cinematic production, as well as professional writers, directors, cinematographers, art directors, animators, game designers, and anyone working in visual media who wants a better understanding of visual structure.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2020
ISBN
9781317745693
Edition
3
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film & Video

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction
  8. Dedication Page
  9. Chapter One The Basic Visual Components
  10. Chapter Two Contrast & Affinity
  11. Chapter Three Space
  12. Chapter Four Line & Shape
  13. Chapter Five Tone
  14. Chapter Six Color
  15. Chapter Seven Movement
  16. Chapter Eight Rhythm
  17. Chapter Nine Story & Visual Structures
  18. Chapter Ten Practice, Not Theory
  19. Appendix
  20. Bibliography
  21. Illustration Credits
  22. Index
Citation styles for The Visual Story

APA 6 Citation

Block, B. (2020). The Visual Story (3rd ed.). Taylor and Francis. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/1636551/the-visual-story-pdf (Original work published 2020)

Chicago Citation

Block, Bruce. (2020) 2020. The Visual Story. 3rd ed. Taylor and Francis. https://www.perlego.com/book/1636551/the-visual-story-pdf.

Harvard Citation

Block, B. (2020) The Visual Story. 3rd edn. Taylor and Francis. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/1636551/the-visual-story-pdf (Accessed: 25 September 2021).

MLA 7 Citation

Block, Bruce. The Visual Story. 3rd ed. Taylor and Francis, 2020. Web. 25 Sept. 2021.