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Goal: Communicate a clear event, emotion, or idea through visual choices.

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Key ideas

A visual story gives the viewer clues. Consider:

• Character: Who is involved?
• Goal: What does the character want?
• Setting: Where and when is this happening?
• Action: What is changing?
• Emotion: How should the moment feel?
• Cause and effect: What happened before, and what may happen next?

Pose, expression, camera angle, lighting, colour, and props can all tell part of the story.

Creative challenge

Create a three-image sequence:

1. Before: establish the character and situation.
2. Change: show an action, discovery, or problem.
3. After: reveal the result or reaction.

Try to make the sequence understandable without words.

Reflect

• Can another person explain what happened?
• Which visual clue communicates the emotion best?
• What could you remove without losing the story?