1st Edition

Visual Storytelling for Filmmakers

By Blain Brown Copyright 2025
360 Pages 485 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

360 Pages 485 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

360 Pages 485 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

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.