Bickering over which pictures to select, and how much room each should get, the students shuffle the photographs. Occasional peals of laughter break out. Visual Storytelling, a new addition to the San Francisco State Journalism Department course offerings, is designed to bridge the gap between text and visuals in the curriculum. Sometimes it's the only thing they look at. He hopes Visual Storytelling will become a required course at San Francisco State.
People have a lot to learn about picture selection.
Hennessy also addresses the importance of putting the right words with the right pictures. During a recent class session, students tried their hands at writing captions. Hennessy told her students. That's how serious some people are about captions. Hennessy encourages students to help one another and come up with their own answers.