Telling Stories Visually

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Movie Trailer: Temple Grandin: Innovator, author, activist, autistic

Think like a photographer
Gladwell- Outliers

• 10,000 rule- you need to spend 10,000 hours on doing something to get really good at it.

Use a process
Pre-write= Planning
First Draft = Preproduction
Revision= Production
Proofreading= Post production
Final Copy= Publishing

Have a plan, but always be open to new ideas.

Stories about Places

• Name six things about the place
• Find out 6 more facts about the place
• Now decide what photos you will take.

Shoot what Drives You

• Your interest
• Your passion
• Your heart
• You need to be in your Element
• Where is the pay check coming from?

Think about the image you want to shoot- before you click the shutter button

• composition
• capturing emotion
• field of view
• one photo or multiple photos
• camera placement
• compose multiple images together to get one using overlays and transparencies

Photo Essay
Shots

• Establishing shot- where are you
• portrait shot - tells you something about a person (even if it not a shot of a person)
• closeup- attracts people's attention
• light objects attract attention more than dark objects
• warm colors before cool colors
• in focus - out of focus
• isolated items before cluttered items
• strong contrast before weak contrast
• oblique lines before horizontal or vertical lines
• live before inanimate objects
• objects we recognize before objects we don't recognize

Story Starters or Themes

• love
• revenge
• truth
• justice
• lack of love
• loneliness
• betrayal
• self-destruction
• death
• resurrection

Capturing Time

• freeze it
• slow vs. fast shutter speed
• night image
• objects that look old and weathered

Lines
Shapes
Texture

Principles of Design
Emphasis
Balance
Harmony- repeating patters
Variety
Repetition
Rhythm
Proportion
Unity

Act 48 code: HL302400