Photo Stories

The photo story is more than a collection of photos thrown on the page at the last minute. If anything, it’s more like a yearbook spread, telling a story through visual images supplemented by words. The captions advance the story as does the copy block, a story that includes specific facts and quotations that fill in the details that can’t be gleaned from the pictures. Use of a dominant element, white space and careful caption placement along with a few embellishments such as rule lines and dingbats help to unify the page. Also key to the successful page is telling the whole story either through a beginning, middle and end and/or through a wide shot, a tight shot, a medium shot and a detail shot. All of the pictures should be of people doing something unusual, full of action and emotion.