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Visual Storytelling: Capturing Stories for self-discovery
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Visual Storytelling: Capturing Stories for self-discovery

Visual Storytelling: Express yourself using storytelling & photography. Visual Storytelling with creative perspectives
Created byCreativity Explored
Last updated 1/2025
English
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What you'll learn

  • Learn wildwriting techniques and visual storytelling to discover your Inner Self
  • Learn creative ways to transform a simple picture into meaningful visual storytelling
  • How to use people and objects as story starters for creative visual storytelling
  • Attach and combine creative writing to your own photographs in limitless ways through visual storytelling
  • Learn to use contextual contrast in a fun and easy way through visual storytelling
  • Learn to tell your own story in a more compelling and unique way through visual storytelling techniques

Course content

2 sections • 19 lectures • 31m total length

  • First steps to storytelling0:52

    Explore simple ways to use contextual contrast to grab attention and help viewers remember your creations, crafting a compelling visual story for business or personal life.

  • Intro to visual storytelling0:54

    Explore visual storytelling to connect groups and convey memorable messages for communities and businesses. Write the story you want to tell, then use contextual contrast to tell it more compellingly.

  • Where can it be found?0:57

    Explore contextual contrast as a core element of creative expression, found in music, poetry, and image making through juxtaposing different objects, qualities, or meanings.

  • Techique 1 for expressing contextual contrast + exercise1:17

    Use forced perspective to express contextual contrast between large and small subjects. Practice changing camera angles to make the small appear larger, and complete an exercise to sharpen perception.

  • Techique 2: Tell a visual story using people, or animals and their relationship0:49

    Tell a visual story using objects, people, or animals by exploring spatial relationships and contrasts, from overhead to eye level, to reveal connections and the evolving narrative.

  • Techique 3: Create contextual contrast by mixing the real world with opposites1:05

    Create contextual contrast by blending real and fake elements, mixing large and small objects, and composing a collage using camera imagery, editing software, and mixed media.

  • Techique 4: Create contextual contrast by playing with the time0:31

    Create contextual contrast by recontextualizing elements from the past into the present or future. This contrast evokes an age and sparks wonder, guiding self-discovery through storytelling.

  • Techique 5: Experiment and change the focus of your storytelling1:16

    Experiment with motion and stillness to shape focus, using long and short exposures to freeze or reveal motion, and complete a three-part assignment with tripod, moving subjects, and background blur.

  • Techique 6: Capture interesting relationships0:37

    Explore interspecies encounters where humans and animals meet, triggering a story told by captured moments; the lower the genetic resemblance, the more intriguing the interaction becomes.

  • Techique 7: Experiment with storytelling with selfies0:34

    Experiment with storytelling through selfies, using contextual age contrasts to create compelling images that engage the brain and take a selfie doing something not fitting for your age.

  • Techique 8: Learn ways to attract attention and tell a story.0:30

    Learn to attract attention and tell a story using out of context imagery that is slightly shocking and unexpected. Create an image showing a new usage for an object, surprising.

  • Final steps: Storytelling to share0:46

    Combine two types of contextual contrast into a compelling visual story in one image, a short video, or a series of images, and share a preview for the final assignment.

Requirements

  • Pen and paper for the first section, and a cronometer
  • A camera or phone
  • An editing software (but not absolutely necesssary)

Description

This course will be fun, creative, exciting. In the first section of the course I will show you a series of pictures, and we’ll have to express some ideas around that. Something very simple and fun to do, don’t worry, I am here to support you when things get tough.

The exercises presented in the course are meant for self-discovery, and to boost your creativity and also teach you a lot about photography in this process.

The second section requires a little bit more practice but it is also fun and simple.

It's creative, personal and you'll be learning more about photography by doing. If this sounds interesting and attractive to you, I invite you to take this course.

Your course project consists of the collection of the small exercises that you find in the lessons.
You may also pick one or a few that you like best. Do as many as you feel like, but please do at least one of them; you'll learn more by doing.

You will have more than 10 assignments and pick a few or do them all and you will learn a lot!

By the end of this course, you'll have developed a stronger sense of your creative instincts and discovered new perspectives in photography. This isn't just about completing assignments—it's about connecting with your personal vision and building confidence in expressing it. So, dive in, experiment, and let your creativity shine. I can’t wait to see what you create!

See where your inspiration takes you.



Who this course is for:

  • Photographers, artists, creative people
  • Anyone interested in the course

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