The Visual Story

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

Bruce Block

• Editore: Routledge
• Anno: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781317745693
• Edizione: 3
• Argomento: Mezzi di comunicazione e arti performative
• Categoria: Film e video

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.

Indice dei contenuti

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Dedication Page
• Chapter One The Basic Visual Components
• Chapter Two Contrast & Affinity
• Chapter Three Space
• Chapter Four Line & Shape
• Chapter Five Tone
• Chapter Six Color
• Chapter Seven Movement
• Chapter Eight Rhythm
• Chapter Nine Story & Visual Structures
• Chapter Ten Practice, Not Theory
• Appendix
• Bibliography
• Illustration Credits
• Index