visual storytelling
Images convey plot
Visual storytelling is the use of images, video, or design elements to convey a narrative.
The term encompasses everything from comic strips and picture books to documentaries and data visualizations.
Where text-based storytelling relies on words alone, visual storytelling communicates through composition, color, sequence, and imagery: Her Instagram feed is a masterclass in visual storytelling.
- illustrationPicture explaining something
- graphic novelsBook-length illustrated stories
- graphic memoirAutobiographical work in comics
- photographyCreating images from light
- storyboardingSequencing shots through drawings
animation · narrative art · show don't tell · symbolism · cinematography · establishing shot · silent film · mise-en-scène · tableau · composition · pacing · framing · eye line · setting · film · tone · characters · plot
- art worldartist, painter, painting, paintings, sculpture
- Filmmakingcamera, film director, camcorder, directing, script
- illustrationpainting, drawing, watercolor, sketch, charcoal
- art educationart classes, art schools, art curriculum, art teacher, art school
- art techniquespainting, drawing, sketching, shading, blending
- picture bookspicture book, picture books, illustrations, storybook, storybook art
visual storytellingoral storytelling
Transmitting tales aloud
spoken word · radio drama · audiobook · prose fiction · audio drama
visual storytellingdata visualization
Graphical representation of information
abstract art · infographics · visual noise · pattern design · documentary photography
visual storytellingexposition
Systematic explanatory presentation
expository writing · narrative summary · info-dumping · lecture