Comments on: What IS Storytelling Anyway? https://daredreamer.com/what-is-storytelling-anyway/ The Sites & Sounds of Creative Expression Wed, 09 Apr 2014 01:34:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 By: Michelle Cox https://daredreamer.com/what-is-storytelling-anyway/#comment-1170 Wed, 09 Apr 2014 01:34:15 +0000 http://daredreamermag.com/?p=22859#comment-1170 In reply to Ron Dawson.

Well, I meant skill level in that I’m not sure my videos really count as “stories” yet. They are still too much just bits of footage put together chronologically. Telling stories is something I strive to do, though, and hopefully the name will eventually fit the work. 🙂

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By: Ron Dawson https://daredreamer.com/what-is-storytelling-anyway/#comment-1169 Wed, 09 Apr 2014 01:02:24 +0000 http://daredreamermag.com/?p=22859#comment-1169 In reply to Michelle Cox.

Thanks for the comment Michelle. I don’t think calling yourself a “storyteller” necessarily has to be tied to your skill level. And FWIW, there’s nothing that says storytelling is superior to non-storytelling. As an artist, the most important thing is to be true to your vision; as a service provider, the most important thing is pleasing your clients. The hard part is balancing the too. 🙂 Whether or not you do that via “storytelling” doesn’t matter.

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By: Michelle Cox https://daredreamer.com/what-is-storytelling-anyway/#comment-1168 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 18:57:58 +0000 http://daredreamermag.com/?p=22859#comment-1168 I’ve fallen into calling myself a “storyteller” even though I know I have a long way to go to really get the “story” into my photos and videos. The thing for me is not really having any good way to define what I do. “Lifestyle” is so vague and is typically used by people who get the family all nicely posed on the parent’s bed as opposed to portrait photographers who get the family all nicely posed in front of a backdrop. It doesn’t really cover the unscripted capturing of natural moments that I am after. My goal is for the session to tell their story, their real story, not show posed moments. Perhaps calling myself a “storyteller” is wishful thinking at my current skill level but it at least shows the direction I am going.

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