
The Visual Story: Creating the Visual Structure of Film, TV, and Digital Media
ISBN 9781138014152; Paperback336 Pages - 717 Color Illustrations The Visual StoryCreating the Visual Structure of Film, TV, and Digital MediaBy Bruce Block This updated edition of a best-selling classic shows you how to structure your visuals as carefully as a writer structures a story or a composer structures 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 St