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Images Tell Stories; Discuss
Johnny Lee
picture representation of person(s) or object(s) etc. ... Images are usually created with an agenda in mind, although its’ significance is not always an obvious one and is open to different modes of understanding. ...
Before the twentieth century, images were used almost exclusively as documents or in order to tell stories. ...
A visual narrative is a story told with pictures and images rather than only with words. All kinds of expression tell stories and form arguments. ... Images tell stories differently from written texts by being both more explicit in some ways, and having the freedom to be more ambiguous in others. That is, graphic images show, and therefore make their meaning more apparent. On the other hand, images dont have to fill in all the words in order to convey a meaning and therefore leave more to the imagination.
Today, images are used in every possible context; in advertising, television, the internet; the mass media. Pictures are used as advertising gimmicks on billboards or crisp packets, and these no longer tell stories but are merely created in order to give the product in question an artificial glamour or personality as media imaging is always staged. ... This is a direct result of advertising, which is in its’ turn defined the images that an advertising brand might choose to represent itself with. Images nowadays are being used in a much more cynical and calculating way in order to make us believe that we need what Gucci has to offer us. ... The fact that the pictures used in advertising are always staged should serve as a warning to us that the stories in advertising images are no longer real stories, and that stories are now being sold rather than told.
Approximate Word count = 1277
Approximate Pages = 5.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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