Storytelling

What is Storytelling?

- Storytelling is the conveying of events in words, sound and/or images.

Stories have been shared by human beings for tens of thousands of years as a means of recording and representing the world and for the purpose of:
- Entertainment
- Education
- Cultural preservation
- Instilling moral values
- Sharing creativity

There are crucial elements of stories and storytelling which include;
- Plot (Cause & Effect process in which develops/ ordering of events)
- Characters
- Narrative (All the means to communicate between the story world and chronologically)
- POV [Point of view] 

The term storytelling is used in a narrow sense to refer specifically to oral storytelling and in a looser sense to refer to narrative technique in other media. 

Visual Storytelling

What is it?

- The phrase visual storytelling applies to film and a host of other media. Sometimes it carries with it a prescriptive edge: in a pictorial medium, you should tell your stories visually - rather than, for example, through lengthy dialogue. Show, don't tell, in other words.

As a concept visual storytelling refers to the way that producers of moving image products convey the meaning of action and events through images without recourse to the written or spoken word.
This is principally achieved through two techniques:
- The choice of shots
- The way those shots are edited together

Visual storytelling is seldom purely visual. In film, it needs concepts and music and noises and much of the time a modicum of dialogue to work most fully. But given the power of the image, a director who invest in purely visual passages first and then considers how his/ her images might be reinforced by other inputs, gains huge dividends in the long run.