Letters About Visual Storytelling
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132 / Fresh Eyes on Old Memories
Rewatching some videos I haven’t seen in nearly a decade!
• 6 minute read
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120 / Visual Storytelling (in Three Acts)
A step-by-step guide to the many choices a filmmaker or comics artist makes in telling a story.
• 8 minute read
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118 / The Storytelling Stick
Sticks, Twitches, Gifts and Touchstones — let me show you how these simple devices can make your stories rich with meaning.
• 3 minute read
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117 / Poor Miss Lonely Hearts
Let me tell you about The Golden Action — visual storytelling at its most creative and potent.
• 4 minute read
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116 / Making The Invisible Visible
I attempt to explain visual storytelling - with emojis! 🤯
• 5 minute read
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112 / Instantaneous Paper Rebellion!
In praise of a medium that is at once unmeasurable, hopelessly unscalable and algorithmically unfathomable.
• 4 minute read
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096 / You Don't Have To Start At The Beginning
Spending time with Hayao Miyazaki has kickstarted my comics storytelling!
• 3 minute read
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094 / How I Made a Comic Short Story
A step-by-step breakdown of making my four-page comic Negroni With A Twist - with lots of pictures!
• 5 minute read
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085 / Storytelling Panel By Panel
The third and final guest letter, with some useful advice on plotting out the panels of a comic.
• 4 minute read
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071 / The Lockdown Diaries
I’ve been keeping a visual journal during lockdown and I’ve learned to pay attention to the little things.
• 4 minute read
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070 / Asterios Polyp
I break down the visual storytelling in this radical and fascinating graphic novel.
• 2 minute read
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068 / Perfecting The Theory
I’ve lost too much time trying to study the craft instead of just getting my hands dirty and making mistakes.
• 3 minute read
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055 / Sequential Art
A look inside Berlin - one of the best graphic novels I’ve ever read and my thoughts on what filmmakers can learn from comics artists.
• 4 minute read
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047 / More Thoughts On Words And Pictures
From Tilly Walden to William Blake - some inspirational notes on telling stories with words and pictures.
• 4 minute read
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042 / I'm Still Thinking About These Ideas
A collection of ideas, quotes and provocations which are still lingering in my brain weeks after I saw them.
• 6 minute read
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040 / More Of Your Questions, Answered
I answer your questions about how I made Jaron Lanier Fixes The Internet for The New York Times.
• 4 minute read
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036 / Things I Know About Visual Storytelling
Sixteen tips to help you improve your filmmaking and comics art.
• 3 minute read
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031 / All Sorts of Things Become Possible
Some lessons in filmmaking from the set of my latest video project.
• 2 minute read
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030 / A New Film I'm Proud Of
A behind-the-scenes look at a new film I’ve made for The New York Times - plus some exciting news about a film I directed last year!
• 4 minute read
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026 / Your Questions, Answered
A Q&A session with Third Something Readers - I answer questions about filmmaking and my creative process.
• 8 minute read
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025 / The Threshold Of Awareness
This diagram helps me tell visual stories that make the audience both think and feel. Here’s how to use it.
• 2 minute read
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021 / My Storyboarding Process
A step-by-step look at my previsualisation process for making a video for The New York Times.
• 4 minute read
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019 / Five Miscellaneous Things
There’s a lot in this one! Poetry, filmmaking, graphic novels and visual storytelling - take your pick!
• 6 minute read
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018 / Planned Improv
Notes on the balance between preparation and improv in the creative process, while shooting a film for The New York Times.
• 4 minute read
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017 / Practicing Scales
Some practical advice on how filmmakers can build a daily practice habit that improves their craft.
• 6 minute read
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013 / Three Thoughts on Visual Storytelling
On Spiderman Into The Spider-Verse, the nature of juxtaposition and writing screenplay dialogue.
• 4 minute read
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011 / Five Days
A day-by-day account of writing and designing a film for The New York Times.
• 5 minute read
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009 / Barbecues On The Titanic
On climate change and how stories create aesthetic emotion to comprehend what’s happening.
• 3 minute read
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007 / Haiku
A great example of The Third Something at work — in words, not pictures!
• 4 minute read
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003 / Movies Made In Slow Motion
How graphic novels and films are sister mediums, speaking the same language.
• 3 minute read