Tell A Story With Several Photos.

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About Tell A Story With Several Photos.

This group is just like one of my favorite groups, Tell a story in 5 frames (Visual story telling) except you can use as many photos as you like as long as it's more than 1 unless you've stitched together several photos into one. All the same rules as Tell a Story in 5 Frames apply with the exception of the limit to five photos. Here you can use as many or as little as you like.

Here's how it works. ( I copied this from < Tell a Story in 5 Frames and changed a few items)

Tell a Story With Several Frames has two important parts. The first part is creating and telling a story through visual means. The second part is the response of the group to the visual story. The group response can take many forms such as, a poetic or prose rendering of the visualization, a critique on the structure of the story, comments on the photograph, or other constructive forms of response. Telling and enjoying stories should create entertainment for the group as well as offer insight into the universal elements that help create a story for an international audience. The more people who respond , as either story tellers or respondents, the greater the reward for all.

Creating a story in several frames is easy. Short stores of two at least or more photos are welcome.

This Flickr toy might help http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php

The Rules of the Game*:
*Photos placed in the Group Pool that do not follow the rules will be deleted.

*Stories with over 15 photos must submit only the link to the set.

1. Submit a sequence of at least two photographs that create a story. One photo can be submitted if it is made by stiching several photos together.

2. Do not post photos in the group pool. The best story of the week will be featured in the group pool. Please instead create a new "discussion" and add the html code for each image which is found when you click on "all sizes--> small"

3. Choose any subject, but the entire sequence should visually tell a story.

4. Rely on the photographs to bring the story to life. Some people may choose to let the titles tell the story others may choose to write a story in the description. You may even want to let other group members write the story for you. It's up to you.

5. Group members respond by relating in their own words the story that they see, or critique the story and/or photographs and open the story up to discussion.

How to Submit a Story

1 Post a new topic. The topic will be the title of your story, for instance, "Visiting the Past."
2 Enter your photographs in a numerical sequence. If your story has more than 15 photos just link to the set.
3 In "Your photos," choose the photo you want to post.
4 Select "all sizes," then select a thumbnail or small size image.
5 Copy and paste the HTML into your post. Repeat for each photograph to create the sequence required for your story.

Guidelines for Telling a Story

Guidelines are not rules, but a formula that can be used to suit your creative imagination. Several avenues exist for story telling, such as journalistic reporting, sequential photos that reveal a moment, photographic poetry, and narrative. The following guidelines are for narrative.

A good story has characters in action with a beginning, middle, and an ending. Fortunately a lot of information can be given in a single photograph, enhancing the limitations of five photographs for your story. Location, time, and atmosphere aid viewer imagination. Keep standards of pictorial beauty, but pack as many story telling elements in one photograph as possible to develop an action.

1st photo: establish characters and location.

2nd photo: create a situation with possibilities of what might happen.

3rd photo: involve the characters in the situation.

4th photo: build to probable outcomes

5th photo: have a logical, but surprising, end.