PLANNING YOUR VISUAL NARRATIVE COLLAGE
Use the information below to complete the Storytelling Planning Worksheet.
Choose a theme for your visual narrative.
- Personal Stories - explore an experience you have had or something personal about yourself that you would like to share.
- Character Stories - explore how we love, who we are inspired by, and the importance of finding meaning in our relationships.
- Memorial Stories - deal with memories of people who are no longer with us. Often difficult to tell, these stories can be emotionally powerful and healing.
- Recovery Stories - deal with how we overcome great obstacles and challenges in our lives.
- Love Stories - provide us with an opportunity to share some of the most meaningful parts of our lives with the people we most cherish.
- Discovery Stories - let us reflect on what we have learned and illustrate our journeys of discovery.
- Adventure Stories - revolve around places we visit and adventures we have in our travels.
- Accomplished Stories - stories about achieving goals and understanding defining moments in our lives.
- Stories about What We Do - allow us to talk about our jobs, professions and careers in terms of how we value and find meaning in the work we do.
Choose an approach to creating your visual narrative collage in Photoshop. The following are examples to get inspired by - feel free to find your own approach too.
PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLAGE
PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLAGE
Divided Self by Ashley Whitt
Ashley Whitt used multiple images of herself to create one photographic image. This approach to collage creates a seamless border between images, resulting in a large photographic image telling a story. View more work by Ashley Whitt.
Ashley Whitt used multiple images of herself to create one photographic image. This approach to collage creates a seamless border between images, resulting in a large photographic image telling a story. View more work by Ashley Whitt.
ILLUSTRATIVE COLLAGE
Using a variety of images in the background and one silhouetted out for emphasis, Slade Fine Art creates illustrative collages. View more work by Slade Fine Art.
TEXTURAL COLLAGE
Ann Marshall is a fine artist and illustrator in New York. She earned her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York and has had her artwork exhibited in Lincoln Center. These examples show how she cuts out and layers portrait images on top of different textures and patterns. View more of Ann Marshall's work.