Photo Editing and Storytelling Course (monthly)

If you love Photography, you may know that the term “Storytelling” is a recent one, but not the art of telling stories through images – an indispensable ability for anyone working in this field, which you can learn and develop with us in the Photo Editing and Storytelling monthly course. Using this skill, you’ll be able to integrate yourself more easily into the workplace, in the areas of both journalism and advertising, as well as evolving your own personal poetic narrative.

Follow with us an educational journey, through the art of storytelling through imagery, which focuses on the study and understanding of the construction and putting together of a static film, a narration through photography that will enable you to offer your work for any end, either commercial or personal.

You’ll participate in a serious and professional Editing and Storytelling course, aimed at both beginners and professional photographers.

You’ll learn to bring out the facts by transmitting a pathos worthy of a playwright, with parallels, symbolism and metaphors, transforming something that was to be a simple news article, into something more like a work of literature. This is a technical and artistic skill that involves various different fields, including photography, with a particular focus on photojournalism.

Program

The Objective:

Commercial path.

Authorial path.

The central idea: Conceiving a photographic project and developing the theme.

Subject, arguments and themes.

Awareness of the story’s central idea.

The intention: Aesthetic, Documentative, Conceptual.

The Photographic Shoot:

The central idea behind the shoot.

The intention of the photographic shoot.

The Photographer’s Analysis:

First edit, emotional choice.

Second edit, conceptual choice.

Thesis, Antithesis and Synthesis:

Analysis of the narrative structure of “American Photographs” by Walker Evans.

Eisenstein Montage Theory:

Montage of Attractions.

Intellectual Montage.

The Dialect of Opposites:

Analysis of the narrative structure of “The Americans” by Robert Frank.

Reduction and Edition:

The Pile, The Group, The Series, The Sequence.

Editing for Construction or Destruction.

Pillars and Partitions.

Choosing the narrative structure:

Aesthetic, Documentative, Conceptual.

Choosing the philosophy of the narrative:

Descriptive narrative assumptions, chronological temporal, emotional poetic, formal aesthetic, conceptual.

Progression of Sequence:

Static, Cyclic, Sliding, Incongruous

The Rhythm of Sequence:

Regular, Syncopated, Irregular

The Three Unities – Aristotle:

Unity of Action, Unity of Place, Unity of Time

Classical Order:

Introduction, definition of context, opening, build-up of history or conflict, continuation, climax, resolution, closure.

Presentation of a Photographic Portfolio:

Title, Text, Captions.

Mounting of a Photographic Exhibition.