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Photo EssayRequires thought/planning
Adds juxtaposition
how shots relate to one another
a kind of movement/editing
sometimes sound
Narration
not always needed
some say better if not needed---images tell the story
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Juxtaposition
Key element in editingimage’s “neighbor”
changes its meaning
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“Ignored”
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Juxtapositionversion one
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Juxtapositionversion two
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Juxtapositionversion two
Power of juxtaposition
One small change
Add one image
turns a cute story into
political commentary
element of racism
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Photo Essay/Storyno sound
A Mother’s JourneyRenee Byer 2007 Pulitzer Prize
http://www.pulitzer.org/works/2007-Feature-Photography
Some Photographic Funhttp://legko.be/index.php?
option=com_content&task=view&id=6053&Itemid=1
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Photo Essayno sound
ContextCharacters
PlotConflictTheme
Individual image characteristicsProgression/order /Linearity
JuxtapositionNarration ?
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The UprisingCairo 2011
Dominic Nahr--with sound
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The Uprising
What does the sound add ?images are powerful
clear progressionbeginning, middle, end
violence, death, grief, joytells a story
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Photo Essay-Fog of WarErrol Morris
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Photo Essay-Fog of WarErrol Morris
Slow, black and white, no photographic or editing “effects”
Lyndon Johnson and Robert McNamaralarger than life characters
relationship changed historyPowerful essay
Academy Award winning doc
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Non-Traditional Storytelling
Jonathan Harrishttp://www.number27.org/ (harris's work)
Artist
Computer scientist
Storyteller
Internet Anthropologistscours the Internet for unfiltered content, which his beautiful interfaces
then organize to create coherence from the chaos.
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Non Traditional StorytellingJonathan Harris
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Non Traditional Story ElementsHarris--We Feel Fine
Storytellermakes tools for others to tell their stories
not his storiesgaps
race, religion, $, age, educationbut we have commonalities
on is the need to tell stories--express selfpeople leave footprints online
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Non Traditional Story ElementsHarris--We Feel Fine
I feel, I am feeling..........groupings of “data”
7.5 million feelings so farmurmurs, montage, mobs, mounds
the Humanity of the webSeeking connections
Many ways of lookingPassive observationhonest and moving
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