IDEA 2 - photographic narrative and inspiration

Photographic Narrative and Inspiration

As a photographer I sometimes find it hard to think of fresh ideas. Everyone is like this at some point in their creative journeys and anyone who says they don’t it lying. People can share photographs at ease in this digital age. Online website spring up all over the place, offering a place to store, share, communicate, buy and sell their photographs. There are a lot of creative sites which people will give you feedback and inspiration on image you have created.

I intend to create a world online where people can share images, but with the purpose of create a narrative. Users can upload chose images, to start off a story, add to or complete stories.

Text will follow each image, with a word or phrase highlighted by the person who uploaded the image. Other users must then take an image relating to the word.

This allows for inspiration and guidance to people who are stuck with ideas, or just want to be
reative. They then follow up their own photograph with the next installment of the narrative. Highlighting a word or phrase which they have then created allows the further advancement of the narrative from other uses.

Depending on the creativity of the users, I believe that long in-depth stories could be created. Each story will have accompanying images and once a narrative is completed users could close the story and crate a video, or animate sequence of the story. The site could even allow for uploading of audio clips which users have created themselves, reading from the finished story.

Advancing ideas for the site could include a blog format. Members can read current stories, create narrative and even upload there images to the site from there camera phone, allowing creativity on the move.