Visual Storytelling: Creating a Compelling and Engaging Brand Experience

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Visual Storytelling has always been a part of the human experience - from cave paintings and comic strips to training films and documentaries, visual narratives are an extremely effective way to engage participants in a virtual experience and establish a point of view that is truly unique. Technology has given us a plethora of affordable, high-quality visual options that has leveled the playing field allowing global participation and exposure. The sheer number and accessibility of this information has its drawbacks – creating a pool of want-to-be authors with pages of image content that is ubiquitous, uninteresting, inconsistent or perhaps counterproductive to the client’s communication and branding objectives.

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Visual StorytellingCreating a Compelling Brand Experience

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Trust a professional with your brand

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Create a story within a story

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Get inside. Capture the soul.

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How to use visual stories

• People, products, processes, positioning• Historical timelines• Relationship

transformation

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A picture is worth a thousand words

A single image

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“If I could tell a story with words, I wouldn’t have to lug this camera around”.

Louis Hine

A single image

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Goals

Audience

Style

Structure for action

Linear path

Create a compelling story

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Provide clarity

Explain concepts

Guide viewers eye

Describe what you cannot see yet

Show what you can’t see

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PERSPECTIVE

Show what you can’t see

SPEED

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PERSPECTIVE

Show what you can’t see

SCALE

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Show what you can’t see

PERSPECTIVE

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Show what you can’t see

SAFETY

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Create a unique you

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Create a unique you

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Telling a good story

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A Detroit story

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Google Maps

A row house on Taft Street

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A dream house. 23 yrs in the making

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13 different artists installations

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Symbols, icons and meanings

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A visionary and his story

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A walkway of languages

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Reach many viewers

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Define goals and audience

The best stories are told within a story

Create a consistent image and message

Establish a clear path from beginning to end

Keep it simple – less is more

Best Practices

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Scott McCloud TEDEX

Mediastorm.org

Slide:ology: Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations

Images by © 2010 MILHEMIMAGES

Also (iStockPhoto, Louis Hine, Lost Puppy)

References

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QUESTIONS?

Janice Milhem734.997.9118

www.milhemimages.com

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