Description
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/
