Visual Storytelling: How to Speak to the Audience Without Saying a Word

by Morgan Sandler

Visual Storytelling covers all major components of creating powerful images including lighting, camera functions, composition and storytelling. However, the main focus of the book is not just creating compelling visuals, but more importantly creating images that inform and move the audience. Images carry emotional weight and Visual Storytelling teaches readers how to harness these emotions to maximize the emotion of the story, while minimizing the amount of dialogue necessary.What makes Visual Storytelling unique is that it not only covers the theoretical concepts of filmmaking but also the technical elements necessary to achieve the emotional outcome. This combination of theory and practice helps to create well informed and skilled filmmakers.

144 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 18, 2018

Reviews

[Fernando Suarezserna · Rating 5 out of 5]

By far, the best book I've read on filmmaking.

[Rick Price · Rating 5 out of 5]

I learned far more than I expected

I bought this book as a stills photographer because I wanted to better learn how to tell stories visually. I was astounded with how well technical things were explained, far better than in the stills photography books I have read.

It also delivered on the promise of understanding how to tell stories visually. Which I believe is also the goal of a stills photographer.

As a stills photographer, I highly recommend you read this book because it will up your game even if you never film a movie.

[Kevin K · Rating 1 out of 5]

It pains me to say this but this was one of the worst books I have ever tried to get through! I ended up skipping through it and finally finished it. What a waste of hard earned $$!