Story Time

USE YOUR IMAGINATION TO MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING

Our second tutorial was all about the power of a photography in telling a story. I found it all very interesting. I love this ability for a single photo to determine everything about the content of a story. I guess in a way it was kind of obvious; for example a picture of a man playing football would be expected to be about a man who plays football.
We participated in an exercise where we were given a story idea that we had to decide on a photo for. I was partnered with Sally again and I personally think we had a great picture idea - it got me really pumped to cover the story! Our story was called "Daytona Demon Damien heads for Dayboro" with a sub-line of "Shiny as silver, red as a cherry and black as sin". Our first instinct was to have the massive monster truck over a line of 'normal' vehicles to really enhance the size of the truck. We also wanted to include Damien in the image to further show how big the truck really is. Our photo was really going to depict this story and would function really well in conjunction with the headline.

We also went into discussion about our upcoming piece of assessment. It was all about factual storytelling and I got thinking about a story I had read online. It was an essay, although it lacked fact it was very humorously capturing. It is located below:

What I like the most about this online essay, found on funnyexamanswers.com, is that there is absolutely no picture yet the depth in visual representation through storytelling is so vivid. 

I don't think this is at all what is expected in my second assessment, but (if it was factual) Jimmy McPerson has been made out of nothing - just like a story in a photograph. 

27.03.2012