1. Telling Stories with Your Photos
eLimu Master Trainer
Isaac & Elizabeth

2. What story did your picture tell?

3. Stories are integral to human culture and storytelling is timeless.

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

5. 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,

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

11. 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.

12. 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.

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

14. Don’t be afraid of failure

15. Completing the caption

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

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

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

19. 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,

20. Assignment 3; Teaching notes