This document provides an agenda for a discussion on visual storytelling and visual thinking. It includes quotes from filmmakers and theorists about how cinema communicates through feelings and sensations rather than rational comprehension, and how photographs can trick viewers through manipulation of context rather than requiring sophisticated editing. The discussion will also cover what images are and how the Kuleshov effect illustrates how context shapes meaning, and it closes by thanking attendees.

1. WCFDavos | Barcelona
“Visual Storytelling,
a Socratic Approach”
Montecarlo
2014 - May, 23th

2. We are going to discuss
some questions about image,
story and visual language.
About Visual Storytelling

3. But first…
What is Visual Thinking?

7. What is Visual Storytelling?

9. “Cinema deals with feelings, sensations,
intuitions and movement, things that
communicate to audiences at a level
not necessarily subject to conscious,
rational and critical comprehension”
Alexander Mackendrick

12. “Cinema is not so much non-verbal
as pre-verbal”
Alexander Mackendrick

13. Reality, Truth
and other Stories

15. “If you want to trick someone
with a photograph, there are lots of
easy ways to do it. You don’t need Photoshop.
You don’t need sophisticated digital
photo-manipulation. You don’t need
a computer. All you need to do
is change the caption”
Errol Morris

17. “Photography is truth.
The cinema is truth
twenty-four times
per second”
Jean-Luc Godard

19. The Kuleshov Effect

20. The Kuleshov Effect

21. The Kuleshov Effect

22. What Are Images?

25. It is not only about violence.
You name it:
Love…
Sex…
Friendship…
Illness…
…
And so on.

29. “The perfect movie would be
one that had no sound
and the screen was
completely blank”
Kitano Takeshi

30. And then?

34. “Mystery is inseparable from chance,
and our whole universe is a mystery”
Luís Buñuel

35. Thank you!
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