Part of Lesson Plan: Storytelling in 6 pictures

Activity Overview / Details

Briefly engage the students about telling stories explaining how a photograph has the ability to convey emotion, mood, ideas, and messages all while narrating a story. 

Discuss with students how relationships and themes work together to tell stories.  Visual themes such as colors and textures, locational themes such as theaters or construction sites, stylistic themes like black and white, should all be discussed on how a story can unfold in multiple images.

Also impart on students to allow viewers to take information from the photograph and process it in their imagination to help them form the story.  To avoid making a cluttered image just to not tell a complicated story.

Students share out their stories to the group or in small groups depending on the size of the class.  Ask students to discuss what they liked and what they might do differently.