By
Bruce Block, Bruce Block has worked in a creative capacity on dozens of feature films, television shows commercials and animated films. 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 & II. He served as creative consultant on
Spanglish, As Good As It Gets, Stuart Little and many other feature
films and television productions. He is an adjunct Professor at the USC School of Cinema & Television.
Description
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.
Audience:
Filmmakers and media creators who want to improve the visual structure their work; directors, cinematographers, editors, animators, art
directors, video game designers, storyboard artists; students in media production or aesthetics courses
