The Visual Story

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.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE

THE BASIC VISUAL COMPONENTS

CHAPTER TWO

CONTRAST & AFFINITY

CHAPTER THREE

SPACE Part One

SPACE Part Two

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

PICTURE CREDITS

INDEX/