Storytelling III: Visual Storytelling
Show, don't tell. B-roll as narrative, visual metaphor, sequencing images to carry meaning.
- Lectures
- 7
- Total runtime
- 4h 55m
- Attendance minimum
- 2h 28m
- Prerequisites
- NAR-201 Storytelling II: Structure & Pacing
Lecture Playlist
Ordered as a teaching progression, not by popularity. Attendance is recorded once half of a lecture has been watched.
- 2. Keaton (MIT 21L.011 The Film Experience) The origin of visual narrative: Griffith invents film grammar, Keaton perfects wordless storytelling 66 min Attended
- 5. Film as Global & Cultural Form; Montage, Mise en Scène The two engines of visual meaning: montage (meaning between shots) vs. mise-en-scène (meaning inside the frame) 48 min Attended
- 6. German Film, Murnau Visual metaphor: designing the physical world so it expresses an inner state 49 min Attended
- 10. Shadow of a Doubt, Rear Window Point of view: building a story out of what a character sees 54 min Attended
- Lab 2 Part I: Review Lab 1 Footage; Film Grammar (MIT DV Lab) Practical film grammar: shot sizes, coverage, and shooting footage that will cut together 60 min Attended
- Directing Without Words: Visual Storytelling in Film Synthesis: staging a whole scene with no dialogue at all 9 min Attended
- Practicum · working creator How to turn a SHOT into a SCENE - Travel Video Storytelling Shots into scenes: a working filmmaker applying montage and coverage to footage he shot on the day, with a test for whether a sequence means anything 9 min Attended
Every course reserves one practicum seat, listed last and marked P. It is filled by someone who has shipped the work — here, Brandon Li — because the university lectures establish why something works and the practicum shows it being done under real constraints.