Visual storytelling

Visual storytelling is presenting a story through pictures, movements, and visual details instead of speech. This constitutes writing vivid and concise action lines in a screenplay, which give enough details for a reader to visualize a scene.

Good visual storytelling typically employs a lot of description to draw attention to important things like the location where the action takes place, movements made by different characters and objects that play a vital role in the story thereby making it more immersive. It underscores “showing instead of telling,” letting viewers infer emotions, relationships and plot developments based on visual clues.

To ensure your screenplay becomes a successful and visually striking movie it is important through creating scripts that are able to depict emotions, relationships, plots using images which have been strung together very creatively.

Following video “Visual Storytelling 101” by Film Riot explains this in depth.