Bruce Block visits Ballyfermot, & Pegbar helps organise the evening in the Sugar Club
Bruce Block (Hollywood Producer and author of the renowned
book ‘The Visual Story’) will visit Ballyfermot College of Further
Education from the 23rd to the 25th November next to deliver four
master classes on ‘THE VISUAL COMPONENTS OF FILM’.
The master classes, for the college animation staff/students and
invited guests, will be delivered in the Anna Brett Hall, Ballyfermot
College Media Building on the following dates and times:
Tuesday 23rd November: 9-12pm and 1-4pm
Wednesday 24th November: 10-1pm
Thursday 25th November: 10-1pm
For more information on the master classes and Bruce Block see below:
VISUAL COMPONENTS OF FILM
Just as a writer is concerned with story structure or a musician with
musical structure, a picture maker must be concerned with visual
structure. The key to using visual structure is an understanding of
the basic visual components: space, line, shape, color, tone,
movement, and rhythm. It is through the control of these visual
components that the picture maker stirs an audience’s emotions,
creates new and unique visual styles and controls the critical
relationship between story and visual structure. The principles
discussed in the seminar can be used in live-action or animation for
any format including theatrical motion pictures, television shows,
commercials, computer games or Internet sites. The seminar relates all
of the visual concepts to practical production and bridges the gap
between theory and practice. The seminar is designed for directors,
writers, storyboard artists, concept artists, production designers,
cinematographers, lighting designers, game designers and graphic
artists.
The Basic Outline:
SESSION 1: SPACE. Discussions begin with an overview of screen space
and the basic organization of visual space. Both 2-D and 3-D space are
discussed.
SESSION 2: STRUCTURE. The relationship between visual structure,
narrative/story structure and structural analysis is discussed.
Processes are explained that allow the filmmaker to organize the
visual structure as carefully as a writer organizes and structures a
story.
SESSION 3: LINE & SHAPE, COLOR. Linear motif is introduced and basic
shapes are defined. Color systems, structure and control are discussed
to simplify an extremely complex visual component.
SESSION 4: TONE, MOVEMENT, RHYTHM. Tone is defined in relation to art
direction and lighting. Movement is discussed for the camera, objects
and the audience’s point of attention on the screen. Rhythm is defined
in relation to stationary or moving objects and editing. Both 2-D and
3-D movement and rhythm are discussed.
© COPYRIGHT 2010 BRUCE A. BLOCK
Bruce Block has over thirty-five years experience in the production of
film and television. His career encompasses live action feature motion
pictures, television programs, commercials, documentaries, animation,
museum installations, and IMAX films. He has produced a variety of
Hollywood studio films including The Holiday, Something’s Gotta Give,
What Women Want and Father Of The Bride. Mr. Block was a creative
consultant on Stuart Little, As Good As It Gets and Some Kind Of
Wonderful.
Mr. Block teaches visual structure of film, television and digital
media at universities, animation studios, advertising agencies,
computer game companies, and graphics design studios in America and
Europe. His clients include Pixar Studios, Walt Disney Feature and
Television Animation, Dreamworks Studios, Warner Bros. Feature
Animation, Hasbro Interactive, Nickelodeon Network, Hewlett-Packard,
Troika Design Group, Screen Training Ireland, Binger Film Institute,
AFI, UCLA and USC’s School of Cinematic Arts.
Mr. Block is the author of The Visual Story published by Focal Press.
His book, dealing with the relationship between story structure and
visual structure, is used professionally and educationally all over
the world.
Mr. Block is a member of the Director’s Guild of America and the Art
Director’s Guild.
