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Storytelling Techniques (Visual cinematic storytelling and mime (Mime does…
Storytelling Techniques
Visual Images - Tell it, show it, become it
Must generate emotions in audience
Striking visual images
Show what they are talking about using classifiers
Signer becomes what they are talking about
Constructed action
Signing in good storytelling
Fingerspelling used very little
Used for identifying things like naming people
Follows sign language structure/grammar as opposed to spoken language
Visual detail (what characters look like, how they behave etc.
Using nonmanual features
Eye gaze, eye aperture, facial expression
Exaggeration to get a point across
The "Visual vernacular" and cinematic features in signed narratives
Created by Bernard Bragg
Can be used to analyse sign language literature
Uses contrasting images ie. dark to light, close up to wide
Visual equivalent of poetic techniques (rhyme, allusion, alliteration and metaphor)
Uses visual effects such as speed and length
Visual cinematic storytelling and mime
Mime does not use grammar and vocabulary
Mime uses the whole body signing rarely below the hips
Mime uses the whole floor, signers stay in a smaller area
Mime prefers constructed action
Mime uses the close up shot, signing distances vary
Mime is one perspective