Narrative
updated 2/20/12 6 pm
Freytag’s Pyramid:
Nancy Kalow’s “Visual Storytelling: The Digital Video Documentary” free pdf. Lots of good content. We’ll be reading more of this later. This week we’re interested in:
CH 3. Finding the StoryCH. 4 Telling Someone Else’s Story
Marie-Laure Ryan, ed. Narrative across media : the languages of storytelling Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2004: Ch. 4: Wendy Steiner, Pictorial narrative (in dropbox)
Labov, W. Where shall I begin? In Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. In and A.N. D. Schiffrin, A. De Fina, ed., Telling Stories: Language, Narrative and Social Life. Georgetown University Press, Washington, D.C., 2009.
Optional: Excellent collection of essays on journalistic storytelling, using the methods of fiction for non-fiction.
- Nieman Storyboard: Essays on Craft
- Nieman Reports: Visual Journalism — especially the following — look at the variety of media he shows.
- Ed Kashi, Multimedia Adds New Dimensions to the Art of Storytelling. ” From a book to a Web site, from a series of photographs to a digital flipbook, my work—and that of many of my colleagues—is looking anew at the long-standing notion that it is the task of a photographer to capture a decisive momentIn these three multimedia projects, I have been able to tell visual stories in more dimensions and with greater authenticity. This enables me to give a bigger voice to my subjects while experimenting with new forms of self-expression.”