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The Visual Story

Creating the Visual Structure of Film, TV, and Digital Media
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The Visual Story by Bruce Block is an essential guide that teaches you how to structure visuals with the precision of a writer or composer. It explores fundamental visual componentsβ€”space, line, shape, tone, colour, movement, and rhythmβ€”and shows how to employ them to convey moods, emotions, and style in visual media. Packed with over 700 colour illustrations, it provides insights into camera angles, lenses, actor staging, composition, lighting, and editing, connecting visual structure directly with storytelling.
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Ideal for students of cinematic production, professional writers, directors, cinematographers, art directors, animators, game designers, and anyone in visual media seeking a better grasp of visual structure and storytelling.

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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.

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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.

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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

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 Something’s Gotta Give, What Women Want, America’s 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 California’s 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 Director’s Guild of America, the Art Director’s Guild, and co-author of the book 3D Storytelling (Focal Press).

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