A story in several Frames / Discussions

group idea comes from group Tell a story in 5 frames (Visual story telling) on Flickr
flickr.com/groups/visualstory
here our group you can post your photos directly to the pool but you must post your story in discussion don't forget that.

Guidelines for Telling a Story

Guidelines are not rules, but a formula that can be used to suit your creative imagination. Several avenues exist for story telling, such as journalistic reporting, sequential photos that reveal a moment, photographic poetry, and narrative. The following guidelines are for narrative.

A good story has characters in action with a beginning, middle, and an ending. Fortunately a lot of information can be given in a single photograph, enhancing the limitations of several photographs for your story. Location, time, and atmosphere aid viewer imagination. Keep standards of pictorial beauty, but pack as many story telling elements in one photograph as possible to develop an action.

1st photo: establish characters and location.

2nd photo: create a situation with possibilities of what might happen.


3rd photo: involve the characters in the situation.

4th photo: build to probable outcomes

last photo: have a logical, but surprising, end.