I like the idea of using comics and graphic novels to convey the notion of visual storytelling to students. One excellent example I would use is Shaun Tan’s wordless book, The Arrival. We would also look at some silent film clips (e.g. Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd) and see how stories are told without dialogue. This could lead into a storyboarding activity.
If there is access to the right technology (cameras, editing capabilities), early in the semester I might have students make a short film that is STRICTLY visual, with absolutely no dialogue. I took a film class in middle school (Summer Academy) where everybody had to make a film involving somebody slipping on a banana peel.
Another activity that might be fun would be to give all the kids the same raw footage (of a limited number of shots), and students would have to put these images together in a way to tell a story.
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