5 frames to tell a story

October 13, 2006 2:06 AM

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.
posted by paulsc (15 comments total)

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


posted by three blind mice at 3:47 AM on October 13, 2006

These are cool, paulsc, thanks. Flickr's crazy good for this weirdness.
posted by cgc373 at 4:16 AM on October 13, 2006

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.
posted by bru at 4:44 AM on October 13, 2006

Yes, the punchline of the rollercoaster story really pulls it all together.
posted by OmieWise at 5:30 AM on October 13, 2006

This is my favourite. Overacted, but cool.
posted by matthewr at 5:37 AM on October 13, 2006

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.
posted by scottreynen at 6:31 AM on October 13, 2006

I did one of these in May. This is a cool idea.
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 7:03 AM on October 13, 2006

The rollercoaster one only needs two photographs, The wide shot of the coaster and the last shot. The other three are superfluous.
posted by chococat at 7:33 AM on October 13, 2006

Pacing, Timing is all in telling a joke. That is, I disagree chococat.
posted by pointilist at 7:45 AM on October 13, 2006

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.
posted by hal9k at 8:26 AM on October 13, 2006 [1 favorite]

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

Absolutely. Make 'em wait.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 8:26 AM on October 13, 2006

You're right, this is more a joke than a story.
posted by chococat at 9:30 AM on October 13, 2006

Weird. I was just reading in the most-recent issue The Believer about a game called Five Card Nancy, which sounds strangely similar.
posted by terrapin at 9:46 AM on October 13, 2006

although more sureal.
posted by terrapin at 9:53 AM on October 13, 2006

ytmnd sure to be coming before the day's out. Maybe someone should give her Ghyslain's number, for consolation.
posted by Mr. Gunn at 7:13 AM on October 14, 2006