ABSTRACT
Pictures usually communicate moods, emotions, or ideas to the viewer. There are three ways that cinematic images communicate with an audience. These are: storys, sound, and visuals. The seven basic visual components are space, line, shape, tone, color, movement, and rhythm. Actors, locations, scenery, costumes, and props are made of these visual components. A visual component communicates moods, emotions, and ideas, and, most importantly, creates the visual structure. Once production begins, the visual component cast will appear on-camera with the actors in every shot. Both casts—the visual components and the actors— communicates moods, emotions, and ideas to the audience. The picture plane is the two-dimensional surface where the pictures exist. The picture plane is usually surrounded by a "window". The exploration of structure often leads to discussions about progressions. A progression begins as one thing and changes to something else. There are also visual progressions.
