Visual narrative
A visual narrative (also visual storytelling)[1] is a story told primarily through the use of visual media. The story may be told using still photography, illustration, or video, and can be enhanced with graphics, music, voice and other audio.
Overview
The term "visual narrative" has been used to describe several genres of visual storytelling, from news and information (photojournalism, the photo essay, the documentary film) to entertainment (art, movies, television, comic books, the graphic novel). In short, any kind of a story, told visually, is a visual narrative.
The visual narrative has also been of interest to the academic community as scholars, thinkers and educators have sought to understand the impact and power of image and narrative in individuals and societies. The corresponding discipline is called visual narratology.[2]
Visual narrative might include:
- stories from a point of view
- images, still or moving
- glimpses on a specific subject
- an appeal for transformation in attitudes and behaviors
See also
References
- ^ Tony C. Caputo, Visual Storytelling: The Art and Technique, Watson-Guptill Publications, 2003.
- ^ Image [&] Narrative – "a peer-reviewed e-journal on visual narratology in the broadest sense of the term".