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The visual story: creating the structure of film, tv, and digital media
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Abstract
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.
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THE VISUAL STORY
BRUCE BLOCK
The Basic Visual Components
SPACE
LINE AND SHAPE
COLOR
TONE
MOVEMENT
RHYTHM
Understanding and Controlling Visual Components
Terms
THE SCREEN
REAL WORLD/SCREEN WORLD
FOREGROUND, MIDGROUND, AND BACKGROUND
THE PICTURE PLANE
VISUAL PROGRESSION
Discussions about structure always lead to a discussion about progressions. A progression begins as one thing and changes to something else.
Contrast and Affinity
Visual structure is based on an understanding of the Principle of Contrast & Affinity.
What is contrast?
Contrast means difference.
CHAPTER 3
Space
Overlap When one object overlaps another, illusory depth is created.
Comparing the Four Space Types
uses deep space
Flat space
Limited Space
