The Visual Story /
Creating the Visual Structure of Film, TV, and Digital Media
BRUCE BLOCK
- Third Edition
- vii,339 pages : illustrations, photos ; 26 cm
- FILM/DIRECTING .
THE BASIC VISUAL COMPONENTS 1 CONTRAST & AFFINITY 11 SPACE : PART ONE 16 SPACE : PART TWO 71 LINE & SHAPE 97 TONE 127 COLOR 145 MOVEMENT 193 RHYTHM 223 STORY & VISUAL STRUCTURES 245 PRACTICE NOT THEORY 289 APPENDIX 307 BIBLIOGRAPHY 317 illustration Credits 321 Index 333
Structure your visuals as carefully as a writer structures a story or a composer structures music with this updated edition of a best-selling classic. Just as music can be used to communicate fear, tension, horror, sadness, or happiness, so too can visual components such as space, line and shape, tone, color, movement, and rhythm. The Visual Story teaches you how to manipulate these components to effectively convey moods and emotions, give your production unity and style, and find the critical relationship between story and visuals. Author Bruce Block provides you with a clear view of the relationship between the story/script structure and the visual structure of film, video, animation, video games, and photography. Understanding how this visual relationship allows you to communicate moods and emotions, can guide you in the selection of locations, character design, lighting design, and most importantly reveals the critical relationship between story and visual structure. With over 700 full color images the third edition is fully updated to include new visual examples, a companion website with video, exercises, and more, expanded coverage of visual structure considerations for video games, animation, and still photography. With an ideal blend of theory and practice, the concepts in this new edition will benefit students studying film, as well as writers, directors, photographers, animators, game designers, cinematographers, art directors and virtually anyone working in visual media who want to better understand and apply visual structure