Storytelling is conveying of events in in words, sound or images. It has been shared by human beings for a very long time as a means of recording and representing the world and for the purposes of:
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Entertainments
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Education
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Cultural preservation
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Instilling moral values
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Crucial elements of stories and
storytelling include:
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Plot
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Characters
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Narrative
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Point of view
The word "storytelling" is utilized as
a part of a narrow sense to allude particularly to oral storytelling and in a
free sense to allude to narrative strategy in other media
Plot:
Cause and effect process that develops, cause effect relationship ordering of
events. Doesn’t always work chronologically.
Story:
is chronological but wider. Chronological world of the film.
Narrative:
All the means used to communicate the plot and story. Action happening within
frame, tile, music, effects (editing effects) and not part of the story world.
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The term “visual storytelling” goes
to film and a host of other media.
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At times it holds a prescriptive
edge: in a pictorial medium, you should tell your stories visually- rather than, for example, through lengthy dialogue.
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Show,
don’t tell, in other words.
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As a concept “visual storytelling” alludes
to the way that producers of moving image products tell the meaning of action
and events through images without recourse to the written or spoken word.
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This is mainly achieved through two
techniques:
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The choice of shots;
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The way those shots are edited
together.
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Visual storytelling is rarely purely
visual.
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In film, it needs concepts and music
and noises and much of the time a medium of dialogue to work most fully.
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But given the power of the image, a
director who invests in “purely visual” passages first and then considers how
his/her images might be reinforced by other inputs, gains huge dividends in the
long run.
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