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.

*Encourages the filmmaker to develop a "visual vocabulary"

*Shows the filmmaker how to structure visuals, communicating moods and emotions with style and variety

布鲁斯•布洛克（Bruce A. Block），电影制片人、南加州大学电影艺术学院教授、视觉顾问。作为一名电影制片人，他制作过《爱是妥协》（Something’ s Gotta Give, 2003)、《男人百分百》（What Women Want, 2000）、《天生一对》（The Parent Trap, 1998）、《新岳父大人》（Father of the Bride, 1991）等多部影片。布洛克自1977年开始，就在南加州大学教授电影电视视觉结构课程，并在美国电影学会、皮克斯动画工作室、沃尔特•迪斯尼电影和电视动画、梦工厂动画、尼克动画工作室、工业魔光等公司和欧洲多家电影院校开设研讨班。此外，他还在《精灵鼠小弟》（Stuart Little, 1999）、《尽善尽美》（As Good as It Gets, 1997）和《西班牙女佣》（Spanglish, 2004）等影片中担任顾问。他的个人网站为：www.bruceblock.com

汪弋岚，先后就读于北京大学、中国电影艺术研究中心，获学士及硕士学位，现供职于中国电影资料馆。