The visual story [electronic book] : creating the visual structure of film, TV, and digital media / Bruce Block.
By: Block, Bruce A [author ].
Material type: BookPublisher: Amsterdam ; Boston : Focal Press, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Edition: Second edition.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 297 p.) : color illustrations.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resource ISBN: 9780240807799 (paperback); 0240807790 (paperback); 9780080551692 (e-book).Subject(s): Cinematography | Video recording | Visual communication -- Technique | Motion pictures -- Production and directionGenre/Form: Electronic booksDDC classification: 778.53 Online resources: E-bookItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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e-BOOK | MTU Bishopstown Library eBook | 778.53 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
If you can't make it to one of Bruce Block's legendary visual storytelling seminars, then you need his book! Now in full color for the first time, this best-seller offers a clear view of the relationship between the story/script structure and the visual structure of a film, video, animated piece, or video game. You'll learn how to structure your visuals as carefully as a writer structures a story or a composer structures music. Understanding visual structure allows you to communicate moods and emotions, and most importantly, reveals the critical relationship between story structure and visual structure. The Visual Story offers a clear view of the relationship between the story/script structure and the visual structure of a film, video, or multimedia work. An understanding of the visual components will serve as the guide to strengthening the overall story. The Visual Story divides what is seen on screen into tangible sections: contrast and affinity, space, line and shape, tone, color, movement, and rhythm. The vocabulary as well as the insight is provided to purposefully control the given components to create the ultimate visual story. For example: know that a saturated yellow will always attract a viewer's eye first; decide to avoid abrupt editing by mastering continuum of movement; and benefit from the suggested list of films to study rhythmic control. The Visual Story shatters the wall between theory and practice, bringing these two aspects of the craft together in an essential connection for all those creating visual stories. Bruce Block has the production credentials to write this definitive guide. His expertise is in demand, and he gives seminars at the American Film Institute, PIXAR Studios, Walt Disney Feature and Television Animation, Dreamworks Animation, Nickelodeon Animation Studios, Industrial Light & Magic and a variety of film schools in Europe. The concepts in this book will benefit writers, directors, photographers, production designers, art directors, and editors who are always confronted by the same visual problems that have faced every picture maker in the past, present, and future.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The visual components -- Contrast and affinity -- Space part one -- Space part two -- Line and shape -- Tonecolor -- Movement -- Rhythym -- Story and visual structure -- Practice, not theory.
CIT Module MMED 6018 - Core reading.
CIT Module MMED 6021 - Core reading.
Electronic reproduction.: ProQuest LibCentral. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- The Visual Components
- Contrast & Affinity
- Space Part One
- Space Part Two
- Line & Shape
- Tone
- Color
- Movement
- Rhythm
- Story & Visual Structure
- Practice, Not Theory
- Appendix
- Bibliography