Bruce Block

Author of The Visual Story, Second Edition: Creating the Visual Structure of Film, TV and Digital Media

About the Author

Bruce Block has worked in a creative capacity on dozens of feature films, television shows, commercials, and animated films. His credits include Something's Gotta Give, What Women Want, America's Sweethearts, How Do You Know, The Parent Trap, As Good As It Gets, and Stuart Little. He is an adjunct show more Professor at USCs School of Cinematic Arts and is the author of the book The Visual Story. Philip Captain 3D McNally has been a stereoscopic photography enthusiast for over twenty years and currently serves as the Global Stereoscopic Supervisor at Dreamworks Animation. He has worked as a stereoscopic supervisor on more than twenty-five productions at several studios, including The Nightmare Before Christmas, Meet the Robinsons, Monsters vs. Aliens, Madagascar 3, and How to Train Your Dragon. show less

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Works by Bruce Block

3D Storytelling: How Stereoscopic 3D Works and How to Use It (2013) 6 copies

THE VISUAL STORY, SECOND EDITION 1 copy

The Princess Academy [1987 Film] (1987) — Director — 1 copy

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Baby Boom [1987 film] (1987) — Producer — 77 copies, 2 reviews

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The Visual Story: Creating the Visual Structure of Film, TV and Digital Media by Bruce Block

THIS is the book I was looking for. Explains the visual structure of video...how to create it and what it means. Contains heaps of examples.

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The Visual Story; Creating the Visual Structure of Film, TV, and Digital Media by Bruce Block

This updated edition of a best-selling classic shows you how to structure your visuals as carefully as a writer structures a story or composers structure their music. The Visual Story teaches you how to design and control the structure of your production using the basic visual components of space, line, shape, tone, color, movement, and rhythm. You can use these components to effectively convey moods and emotions, create a visual style, and utilize the important relationship between the show more visual and the story structures. Using over 700 color illustrations, author Bruce Block explains how understanding the connection between story and visual structures will guide you in the selection of camera angles, lenses, actor staging, composition, set design and locations, lighting, storyboard planning, camera coverage, and editing. The Visual Story is an ideal blend of theory and practice. The concepts and examples in this new edition will benefit students learning cinematic production, as well as professional writers, directors, cinematographers, art directors, animators, game designers, and anyone working in visual media who wants a better understanding of visual structure. show less

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