The Visual Story: Seeing the Structure of Film, TV and New Media ANNOTATION
Audience: Working professionals in film and television, web site and video game designers; animators and students of animation Undergraduate and graduate students and professionals in film and video production, and student in film studies courses, particularly visualization and aesthetics This would be Focal Press's first contribution to the film studies area.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
The Visual Story offers students and professionals in cinematography, production design, directing and screenwriting a clear view of the relationship between the story/script structure and the visual structure of a film or video. An understanding of the visual components will serve as the guide in the selection of locations, set dressing, props, wardrobe, lenses, camera positions, lighting, actor staging, and editorial choices.
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.
*Encourages the filmmaker to develop a "visual vocabulary"
*Shows the filmmaker how to structure visuals, communicating moods and emotions with style and variety
SYNOPSIS
* Encourages the student to develop a visual vocabulary
* Shows the student how to structure visuals, communicating moods and emotions with style and variety
* Applicable to all areas of the filmmaking arts - scriptwriting, cinematography, art direction, production
design, & directing
AUTHOR DESCRIPTION
Bruce Block is producer and consultant to feature film and television directors, animation studios, and TV commercial production companies. He is a Professor at the USC School of Cinema and Television and teaches seminars in visual structure at the UCLA Extension Program, as well as corporate seminars for Walt Disney, Dreamworks, Warner Brothers, PIXAR and others. He is a regular contributor to American Cinematographer Magazine. His film credits include What Women Want, Baby Boom, and The Parent Trap (Producer), As Good As It Gets, Stuart Little (Visual Consultant) and many others.
ACCREDITATION
Bruce Block is producer and consultant to feature film and television directors, animation studios, and TV commercial production companies. He is a Professor at the USC School of Cinema and Television and teaches seminars in visual structure at the UCLA Extension Program, as well as corporate seminars for Walt Disney, Dreamworks, Warner Brothers, PIXAR and others. He is a regular contributor to American Cinematographer Magazine. His film credits include What Women Want, Baby Boom, and The Parent Trap (Producer), As Good As It Gets, Stuart Little (Visual Consultant) and many others.
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