The Visual Story
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The Visual Story
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The Visual Story teaches you how to manipulate components such as space, line and shape, tone, color, movement, and rhythm to effectively convey moods and emotions, give your production unity and style, and find the critical relationship between story and visuals.
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, colour, movement, and rhythm. You can use these components to effectively convey moods and emotions, create a visual style, and utilise the important relationship between the visual and the story structures.
Using over 700 colour 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.
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Praised by the American Film Institute as essential for cinema students, the book is noted for its masterful deconstruction of visual storytelling. Renowned creators like Sam Esmail and Nancy Meyers commend Bruce Block for offering unique and transformative insights that deepen the understanding of film as a visual language and significantly improve storytelling through visuals.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781138014152
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 05 August 2020
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Routledge
Edition: 3rd edition
Illustration: 214 Line drawings, color; 503 Halftones, color; 717 Illustrations, color
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 184.0mm
Height: 260.0mm
Weight: 1040g
Pages: 340
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About the Author
Bruce Block has worked in a creative capacity on dozens of feature films, television shows, commercials, and animated productions. His feature film producing credits include Somethingβs Gotta Give, What Women Want, Americaβs Sweethearts, The Parent Trap, and Father of the Bride I and II. He served as a creative consultant on Spanglish, As Good As It Gets, Stuart Little, and many other film and television productions. He is a tenured professor at the University of Southern Californiaβs School of Cinematic Arts and holds the Sergei Eisenstein Endowed Chair in Cinematic Design. Mr. Block gives seminars at a variety of studios including Blue Sky Studios, Cartoon Network, Disney Feature and Television Animation, Dreamworks Animation, Industrial Light & Magic, Laika, LucasFilm, Nickelodeon Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, and a wide range of European and American film schools including AFI and Cal Arts. Mr. Block also conducts seminars for digital game designers and companies including Activision-Blizzard, Blur Studio, Google, Hulu, and Tencent. He is a member of the Directorβs Guild of America, the Art Directorβs Guild, and co-author of the book 3D Storytelling (Focal Press).
www.bruceblock.com
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