The Visual Story - 3rd Edition - Creating the Visual Structure of Film, TV, and Digital Media

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.

Product details

• Authors: Bruce Block, Bruce A. Block, Not Available (NA)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.08.2020
• EAN: 9781138014152
• ISBN: 978-1-138-01415-2
• No. of pages: 340
• Dimensions: 185 mm x 260 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Hobby, home > Photography, filmmaking, video filmmaking; Humanities, art, music > Art; The arts: general issues, PERFORMING ARTS / Acting & Auditioning, PHOTOGRAPHY / Techniques / Cinematography & Videography, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Film production: technical & background skills, COMPUTERS / Design, Graphics & Media / Audio, Filmmaking and production: technical and background skills, The arts: general topics