Comments on: 5 frames to tell a story

5 frames to tell a story

paulsc — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 02:06:33 -0800

Tell a story in 5 frames is a Flickr "group" and nothing more. Not every folksonomy succeeds as well as this one. "ride of your life" is a classic.

By: three blind mice

three blind mice — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 03:47:26 -0800

A title is the only words that can be used. Rely on the photographs to bring the story to life.

By: cgc373

cgc373 — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 04:16:32 -0800

These are cool, paulsc, thanks. Flickr's crazy good for this weirdness.

By: bru

bru — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 04:44:30 -0800

Excellent, paulsc, thank you. I think that the 5-10 images format to tell a story can be very powerful , as shown sometimes in the nytimes slideshows. This flickr group and rules gives it an interesting twist.

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 05:30:55 -0800

Yes, the punchline of the rollercoaster story really pulls it all together.

By: matthewr

matthewr — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 05:37:52 -0800

This is my favourite. Overacted, but cool.

By: scottreynen

scottreynen — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 06:31:41 -0800

Neat. Is there a Flickr feed for just notifications of new discussion threads, and not every single reply within the thread? I'd like to subscribe to this, but I don't see any way to do that.

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 07:03:45 -0800

I did one of these in May. This is a cool idea.

By: chococat

chococat — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 07:33:40 -0800

The rollercoaster one only needs two photographs, The wide shot of the coaster and the last shot. The other three are superfluous.

By: pointilist

pointilist — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 07:45:15 -0800

Pacing, Timing is all in telling a joke. That is, I disagree chococat.

By: hal9k

hal9k — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:26:01 -0800

Heck, back in my day we only had cheap Polaroid shots to tell our story. And we could only afford to tell it with THREE photos. Had to wait a while for them to develop too, maybe put one under each armpit when it was subzero to speedup the process. Don't even ask about the third.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:26:41 -0800

Pacing, Timing is all in telling a joke. That is, I disagree chococat. Absolutely. Make 'em wait.

By: chococat

chococat — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:30:37 -0800

You're right, this is more a joke than a story.

By: terrapin

terrapin — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:46:21 -0800

Weird. I was just reading in the most-recent issue The Believer about a game called Five Card Nancy, which sounds strangely similar.

By: terrapin

terrapin — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:53:14 -0800

although more sureal.

By: Mr. Gunn

Mr. Gunn — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 07:13:12 -0800

ytmnd sure to be coming before the day's out. Maybe someone should give her Ghyslain's number, for consolation.