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Mario R. García (born February 15, 1947, in Placetas, Las Villas, Cuba) is a Cuban-American newspaper and magazine designer and media consultant.He arrived from Cuba to the United States on Feb. 28, 1962, as one of the so-called Pedro Pans (14000 refugee children who arrived in the US soon after the Castro Revolution).
A visual narrative (also visual storytelling) [1] is a story told primarily through the use of visual media. This can be images in the mind, digital, and traditional media. [ 2 ] The story may be told using still photography , illustration , or video , and can be enhanced with graphics , music, voice and other audio.
A photographic essay or photo-essay for short is a form of visual storytelling, a way to present a narrative through a series of images. A photo essay delivers a story using a series of photographs and brings the viewer along a narrative journey.
Facts can be understood as smaller versions of a larger story, thus storytelling can supplement analytical thinking. Because storytelling requires auditory and visual senses from listeners, one can learn to organize their mental representation of a story, recognize structure of language and express his or her thoughts. [25]
These books began as educational tools for young children to tell stories and can still be a useful format for pre-literature children. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] However, some more recent wordless picture books require the reader to be acquainted with conventions around reading books and can be a fun challenge for older readers. [ 1 ]
An attempt to observe children reading and writing visual texts was made by twenty US and Australian teachers in 1990–1994, and followed up in 2011. [6] The visual texts studied were limited to those used in information books, e-books, and websites, such as diagrams, maps, storyboards, flowcharts, time lines, webs, trees and tables.
James Eric Cutting is an American cognitive scientist and researcher. He is the Susan Linn Sage Professor emeritus in the Department of Psychology at Cornell University.He is known most recently for his research studying how the structure of movies in American cinema has evolved over the years, [1] in terms of physical attributes and narratives. [2]
Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels is a book by comic book writer and artist Scott McCloud, published by William Morrow Paperbacks in 2006. A study of methods of constructing comics, it is a thematic sequel to McCloud's critically acclaimed books Understanding Comics and Reinventing Comics .