The Story Teller ("Part 2 - Previsualization & The Story")

We have seen how thought can be visual. The story 'can be' visual, in as much as the visual experience belongs to the story teller, and his or hers connection to the story and the the one listening to the story's response, in as much as that persons relative memory base, in which to interpret that story. How then, can what is called today by many, 'previsualization' be a visual art? It cannot. In its most basic form, previsualization is nothing more than verbal story telling.

Within the mind of the story teller, the scene, the story & the characters all are visualized by the story teller, in order to best relate what can best be described as 'previsualization.' Previsualization occurs within the mind of the story teller. The story can exist as words on a paper, or a computer screen, but herein this manifestation of the story, has taken on form, and exists in the dimension of a thing.

Today's film production has come to coin the word 'previsualization' as the act of 3D rendering of a scene, using the high speed, high memory & graphic acceleration of a modern computer. This reportedly saves enormous pre=production costs and foresees some difficulties, which may arise. While the 3D rendering on the computer screen is in fact only 2 dimensional, the result is that it is visual. And being visual, it is not pre-visual. If a thing is in its nature visual, it cannot ever be previsual.

Thus, the story teller, through the spoken word is the ultimate previsualization artist, encouraging those who hear the story, to imagine, to associate memories and thoughts & thereby to visualize for themselves.