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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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