The future of audiovisual story telling

The inception of storytelling can be found right from the existence of Homo sapiens (Humans). Humans used the method of storytelling to preserve their stories, history and cultural traditions of their ancestors primarily in an oral tradition. Historically, Storytelling have been used by the tribal communities to share language, traditions, and beliefs from one generation to another. Different societies have taught key principles through storytelling for thousands of years. (Brady, 1997; MacDonald, 1998). In many ancient cultures, without a written language storytelling was the only way to convey a society’s culture, values, and history. Verbal communication is one of the fundamental forms of communication, whether humans once communicated with primitive grunts. As humans are social creatures, they use different mediums to communicate which also proves as an evidence of socialism of humans. Consequently, storytelling evolved from stone scripts to the digital and now it is further transforming to the immersive medium format. Different cultures documented their stories, history and digitized it to preserve it. Many ways of storytelling developed along with the development of human being. The technology played a vital role in establishing various new formats of storytelling. Stone scriptures, literature, narrations, audio formats, recordings, paintings, visuals and audio-visuals etc. is the normal journey of storytelling. As the visual medium emerged the core part of it became the images which further transformed into video. Aesthetics and content of the storytelling is creatively enhanced with the help of various processes. Amongst which audio-visuals are the most important. Audio visual storytelling took its shape right from the grandmother stories and immerged as the most effective medium of storytelling in the journey of all forms of storytelling. Image processing; the set of techniques used to modify a digital image in order to improve it (in terms of quality), or to reduce its size or to get information out of it. Digital image processing is a new sector of knowledge that has quickly developed due to the emergence of new information technologies. This research gives spotlight on the analysis of multidimensional role of audio-visuals in altering the complete way of contemporary storytelling. It deals with various aspects of audio-visual production process related to audio, video and images. The main purpose of the study is to discuss the future development in the audio-visual format of storytelling with respect to the technological aspect.