Story book help

I am used to teaching adults every thing from what the PASM dial is for right up to posing and how to set up studio lighting .so when I was recently asked I agreed to help, a charity group that gets youngsters from around the world together to help foster international understanding of different cultures and so on.

I have now had from the charity a specific request for a group of 20 mixed age, gender and nationality kids.

The request is to help show them "something along the lines of ‘how to tell a story with a photo’. Some kind of storyboard/narrative training." so once they have all gone on their separate ways they can take this kind of images at home and send them back to the charity.

Given I don't shoots for editorials or for the press, story telling with images is a bit new for me; any suggestions of reading matter or any other help for this would be greatly appreciated

regards

Alistair

It's an interesting idea. Perhaps a beginners book on movie making would start you off, movies start with a story-board I guess.

At our daughter's primary school they had a toy bear, Barnaby, and it went home with a pupil at holiday times. I did a story board when it was our turn about Barnaby Bear coming with us on holiday. I still have a copy on two 20" x 16" boards. Lots of images of Barnaby seat-belted in the car, looking at maps, visiting shops, with brief captions such as "Barnaby checked out the area on his map" - is that the sort of thing you had in mind?

John, thank you for your reply, I think your suggestion of the bear story is a very good idea.

I need to go back to them and ask them to expand a bit on their ideas so I can have a better idea of what they are looking for.