For some time it's been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I do all my speeches in pictures. If I wrote words, I'd get locked in on them.
We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.
When you make illustrations, you're supposed to have a subtext; you're not just communicating words - you're actually adding another story altogether.
I've always been better at informing the audience through images than through words, but I took on a script that was so dialogue-intensive, that the words had to do all the informing.
The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word.
The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted.
I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.
In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.
As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text.
I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to make up the words of art and create them verbally rather than build them.
No opposing quotes found.