Telling Stories with Your Photos eLimu Master Trainer Isaac & Elizabeth

What story did your picture tell?

Stories are integral to human culture and storytelling is timeless.

Storytelling photography is a way for a photographer to narrate a story with a series of photographs.

In visual storytelling, images are ordered in a specific way, either chronologically or as a series, with the aim of ‘infecting’ the viewer’s vision and mind,

Captions are also an integral part of a photo story that should help the viewer understand each image. Captions may expand learners understanding of an image, but it’s the image itself that should tell the story – never the other way round.

Tips: Plan the Lesson well What is he doing? Think about the type of images you want to capture to convey your lesson.

Single shot or a series? A series of images emphasizes several ideas, whereas a single image usually emphasizes just one idea. 

Take stronger images Strong images should be emotive to have some kind of emotional impact on your viewer.

Not all images must contain a human element to be emotionally moving;

the images should be thoughtfully layered with meaning. This is how you engage your viewer’s attention for a longer period of time. This is usually the most difficult process of telling a story with photographs.

Trust your instincts If you notice something in particular and think it may be a good photo opportunity, try not to assess the situation too much, rather trust your instincts and see how it unfolds.

Be original Why? Well, there’s really no satisfaction in copying someone else’s work.

Don’t be afraid of failure

Completing the caption

During this lesson we create captions for the image below; use appropriate comparative adjectives.

Comparative adjectives that you want your learner Higher/lower Smarter Narrower/wider More careful

Assignment 1: class six English; Adverbs Create a photo story lesson to teach the following adverbs; There, Carefully, Soon, Always, What, Quite,

Assignment 2:Develop photo story We were in the middle of an interesting English lesson on a cool Wednesday morning. Suddenly the door to our classroom burst opened and .............. Three men walked in. Two of the men seemed to be old but still robust. The third was a tubby man who gave orders “arrest him! Teacher you are charged with murder.” Insert the photos in correct order in your “writer document” Presentation tomorrow morning,

Assignment 3; Teaching notes