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Avisual narrative (alsovisual storytelling)[1] is a story told primarily through the use of visual media. This can be images in the mind, digital, and traditional media.[2] The story may be told using stillphotography,illustration, orfilm, and can be enhanced withgraphics, music, voice and other audio.
The term "visual narrative" has been used to describe several genres of visual storytelling, from news and information (photojournalism, thephoto essay, thedocumentary film) to entertainment (art, movies, television,comic books, thegraphic novel). In short, any kind of a story, told visually, is a visual narrative.
It can also be used as a form ofvisual communication as people naturally use stories to understand the world and express their stories. In some circumstances, visual narrative can be misleading,misinformative, ordisinformative.[2]
Visual narratives are of interest to the academic community to understand the impact and power of image andnarrative in individuals and societies.[3] The corresponding discipline is called visualnarratology.
Visual narrative might include:
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