Visual Storytelling

Beth and I have discussed the fact that we don’t like dialogue as much, which is a problem as it is more key in a short film compared to a music video. Beth really dislikes it, I don’t mind it as much but we both agreed that we would much prefer a minimalist style film, for this however, our visual storytelling needs to be quite strong, something I’m going to do some research into.

Visual storytelling can save time, as you don’t have to explain everything and it comes across as less forced. It allows the audience to think and make their own connections, makes it deeper and more interesting. It also means the film can be interpreted in more ways and more ambiguously, something that makes the film more complex. It is then more of an open text, which Barthes identified can be unravelled in many different ways.

The film I watched recently called Palo Alto did this really well, using position of dolls or other imagery to represent things happening in the scene, dealing with things such as a sex scene in a less crude way.