Purpose - what is your primary message? This may be literal or more metaphorical. What emotions do you hope to evoke?
Audience - who is your ideal audience?
Strategy - Are there particular images, sounds, colors, and techniques that you can utilize?
Plot down your ideas!
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Checklist for Sketching a Photo Essay
My story is about my family and how happy they were when they would begin to bake. It’s about appreciating a moment that will be remembered forever. I want to tell it so that other people will pause sometimes and look at life in the moment. I want to tell a message more than just a story.
I want my audience to be able to apply the mentality that I had in the story to their lives so they can feel more fulfilled in times of need or when they are stressed.
I think I’m a reliable narrator because I’ve lived this moment and spent time appreciating it, and I am a happier person because of it.
I need to be sure to represent happiness, peacefulness, and composure. Possibly appreciation for different emotions and/or people in my life.
I want my reader to feel at peace while reading/looking at my photo essay. I want them to feel the composure, love, and appreciation that I felt in the moment.
I think I’m being true to life a bit, but in order to portray a real message, I may need to exaggerate the pictures and the emotions I want the reader to feel just a bit.
Fonts…maybe like a normal, serif font. Nothing too fun, but nothing too serious.
I want to take on a calm, dreamy tone.
Audience - who is your ideal audience?
Strategy - Are there particular images, sounds, colors, and techniques that you can utilize?
Plot down your ideas!
_______
Checklist for Sketching a Photo Essay
My story is about my family and how happy they were when they would begin to bake. It’s about appreciating a moment that will be remembered forever. I want to tell it so that other people will pause sometimes and look at life in the moment. I want to tell a message more than just a story.
I want my audience to be able to apply the mentality that I had in the story to their lives so they can feel more fulfilled in times of need or when they are stressed.
I think I’m a reliable narrator because I’ve lived this moment and spent time appreciating it, and I am a happier person because of it.
I need to be sure to represent happiness, peacefulness, and composure. Possibly appreciation for different emotions and/or people in my life.
I want my reader to feel at peace while reading/looking at my photo essay. I want them to feel the composure, love, and appreciation that I felt in the moment.
I think I’m being true to life a bit, but in order to portray a real message, I may need to exaggerate the pictures and the emotions I want the reader to feel just a bit.
Fonts…maybe like a normal, serif font. Nothing too fun, but nothing too serious.
I want to take on a calm, dreamy tone.