Visual Storytelling for Filmmakers

Blain Brown

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Routledge
23 January 2025

Film movie production: technical skills

Directly addressing how filmmakers can craft visually powerful films through practical skills that can be used throughout the filmmaking process, author Blain Brown explores how we use space, color, camera angles, composition, motion, POV and all the other methods in the day-to-day work of telling stories visually.

Brown interrogates not only the tangible aspects of visual storytelling, but also the more abstract areas as well including visual metaphor, manipulating time and space, and visual subtext.

It covers all the aspects of visual storytelling that directors, cinematographers, and editor use to tell stories visually. Written by a working filmmaker with over 30 years’ experience as a director and cinematographer, this book looks at both the how and the why of visual storytelling, consistently drawing on the day-to-day real-world environment of making a film.

Ideal for intermediate and advanced students of filmmaking as well as professionals working in the industry.

Topics Include:

• Building A World

• Cinematic Space

• Visual Metaphor

• Frame & Composition

• Using Color

• Time & Space

• Light & Shadow

• Visual Forces

• POV & Eyelines

• Motion

• Lens & Focus

• Establishing

• Case Studies.

By: Blain Brown
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm,
Weight: 980g
ISBN: 9781032414706
ISBN 10: 1032414707
Pages: 348
Publication Date: 23 January 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter 1: Building a world; Chapter 2: Visual Metaphor; Chapter 3: Establishing; Chapter 4: Cinematic space; Chapter 5: Frame & Composition; Chapter 6: Light & shadow; Chapter 7: Texture; Chapter 8: POV & Eyelines; Chapter 9: Using Color; Chapter 10: Lens & focus; Chapter 11: Time & space; Chapter 12: Motion; Chapter 13: We open on…; Chapter 14: Case studies; Bibliography

Blain Brown has worked as a Director of Photography, writer, and director on feature films, commercials, industrials, music videos, and documentaries for over thirty years. His other books include Cinematography: Theory and Practice (4th Edition), Motion Picture and Video Lighting (4th Edition), The Filmmaker's Guide to Digital Imaging and The Basics of Filmmaking.