What Details

What details tell the story?

As a writer, you use descriptions to convey a message, to enhance a scene and to make a reader feel like they are in the moment. You use the finest of brushes to paint pictures that are inside your mind, into the mind of others. You make them feel the hot breeze ruffling through their dusty hair, you tell them of the sounds of far off stags roaring across the sandy soil and you tell them of the feeling inside of you as hard work pays off. Pages upon pages of adjectives, adverbs, nouns and punctuation to tell a story.

As a filmmaker, you have the ability to introduce your audience to a moment in a completely different way. To be able to utilize visuals, sounds, perspectives, music and a style of editing to enrich an experience. You have a litany of options to utilize, create and evoke emotions in your story. Each detail brought forth subtle, firm, and telling. Seconds, upon minutes, upon hours to tell your story.

As a photographer, you have one frame to captivate your audience and tell the very same story. In a fraction of a second, you have a chance to freeze one small moment to tell the whole story. With that chance, comes all of the pressures of that in which the writer and the filmmaker faces, all wrapped up inside the borders that frame each photo. So with that photo, with that metal and plastic box in your hand, you have the responsibility to capture the details and the moments to tell your story.

So what details tell your story?