Today Brian gives us a deeper insight into our project brief, an explanation further of Photo essays. Like storytelling, photo essays are made to tell a story. and such, like a story a photo essay needs a structure, even in the compilation of the images. It needs a foundation that can make sense to the readers.
Like storytelling, a photo essay needs a beginning, middle and end. The photos then articulate the particular lifestyle of the project, but in photo essays the images are the primary storyteller, not the story itself, the captions compliment the pictures, giving a visual sensation and a relief of imagination.
When planning the narrative structure of the picture, Brian told us there are some things we should consider:
- Exposition, rising action, complications, climax, falling action, resolution
- How do you represent conflict in photographs?
- How the photos interact with the stories when the viewers see them.
- How to represent a normal style of life ina highly aesthetic manner
He showed us 4 main categories when constructing a photo story
- Establishing Image: context and environment
- Action image: capturing action and interaction
- portraits: essential to any story
- close-up or detail image: need to identify significant detail within the overall scene
and one important thing he told us when we are starting the post-production.
Figure what sort of atmosphere/emotion you want too leave your viewers when they finished seeing the video
Brian also showed us some of photographers which I will talk about in the inspiration part of the blog. Afterwards we got onto our exercise. For this week Brian wanted us to be in a group to make a short 7 picture photo story with the theme “The exchange”. I did mine in RMIT connect the kind of exchange we chose was the exchange of information. this is one of the photos that we made (sorry Michaela, but I look decent in this pic!)
