1. Telling a story with pictures
The photo essay
Telling a story with pictures

2. Objective When you finish this activity, you will be able to:
Visualize a story from beginning to end
Capture photography that represents each stage in the story
Utilize Photo Story 3 software to create a photo essay

3. What is a photo essay? Like a written essay, it tells a story
Educates the viewer
Spark emotions from the viewer
Can include music (or not)
Can include captions (or not)

4. What are the types of photo essays?
Time sequence
Location
Idea
Event

5. Time sequence essays Tells a story chronologically
Most useful when passing of time is relevant
Life of a bird, from being in an egg to laying their own
The time span can be any length
Your baby book would be a long time sequence

6. location essays Captures feel and emotion of a particular location
Conveys information about that particular location
Should have a definite beginning and end

7. Idea essays Has a common theme that holds it together
One element should be consistent
Element can be visible (see below) or not (wind, elevation, etc.)

8. Event essays Document an event Birthday party, wedding, trip to HEB
Be sure to cover the most important parts (if you’re covering a soccer game, don’t leave out the final score)
Birthday party, wedding, trip to HEB

9. example
In 2011, Angelo Meredino took these photos of his wife, Jennifer, as she was dying of breast cancer
These are only a sampling of his photos; please click here for the entire series
This is a very sad and highly effective photo essay

17. Assignment: photo Essay
You will take pictures for the purpose of telling a story
Your photo essay will require a minimum of fifteen pictures, which means that you will have to take many more than fifteen to settle on the good shots
Using Photo Story 3 For Windows, you will upload your photos, music, and text to accurately and succinctly tell your story
We have never used this program, so play around with it and figure it out, hence the reason why you have two weeks
Submit the project as [your last name] Photo Essay [class period] and then turn it in to Mr. Nigrelli via Google Drive by the end of class on Friday, May 12th