Visual Story : Seeing the Structure of Film, TV and New Media

by Block

• ISBN13: 9780240804675
• ISBN10: 0240804678
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-23
• Publisher: Elsevier Science

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	xi
The Visual Components	1	(8)
Contrast and Affinity	9	(4)
Space	13	(1)
Part One---The Primary Subcomponents	14	(38)
Part Two---Secondary Properties	52	(179)
Line and Shape	75	(18)
Tone	93	(8)
Color	101	(24)
Movement	125	(28)
Rhythm	153	(20)
Story and Visual Structure	173	(42)
Practice, Not Theory	215	(16)
Appendix	231	(24)
Bibliography	255	(4)
Index	259