The visual story

I’ve been reading this book called "the visual story: seeing the structure of film, TV and new media". It’s written by Bruce Block. This book is great and very relevant to what I’m doing; it was also on the reading list (duh!). But I thought I would give a little detail about it.

Ok, so this book is about film and TV production. We produce film and TV by editing
video clips and joining them together to create a seamless visual story. The editing is affected by 7 basic visual components. These must be taken into consideration to create the perfect show. These are Space, Line, Shape, Tone, Colour, Movement and Rhythm.

After being introduced to the 7 visual components, Bruce goes on to explain how each of these used together can create clear visual grammar, thus producing a better finished piece.

This book has really cleared things up about films and other visual media. I highly recommend reading it if you're into AV as it gives a really good in depth perspective of visual media. Top marks.