# Photo Essay × Scrollytelling — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=photo-essay+scrollytelling
# Photo Essay carries the structure. Scrollytelling appear as accents, each further back than the last.
# Style descriptors only. Never imitates a specific artist, studio, brand or work.

An original image that takes its structure from Photo Essay (Layout, 1936–1972) and its accent from Scrollytelling (Layout, 2012–). Structural cues: Sequenced narrative arcs; Size contrast across spreads; The full-page key image; Captions that narrate. Accent cues, used sparingly: A graphic that holds still on screen while a single narrow column of text passes over it; Changes made by opacity and by moving a map, so that scrolling back undoes them in the same order; Photography, video and data visualization sharing one article; A path that is either straight through or branches into an optional deeper detour and returns. Composition: One dominant image per spread and never equal sizes. Type and lettering: Write captions in a voice apart from the body text. Let one material quality come from the second style: Build only changes that can run backwards, such as opacity crossfades and map moves, each tied one to one with scroll distance.. Mood: Intimacy, Exhilaration, Trust, Technology. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #000000, #FFFFFF, #4A4A4A. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.

# Cautions carried from each entry
# - Photo Essay: Good pictures get lined up without a sequence being designed, every spread arrives at the same pitch, and the reader loses any reason to turn the page.
# - Scrollytelling: Tying a one shot animation to the scroll leaves a reader who scrolls back looking at nothing, and makes the middle of the article impossible to reread.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/photo-essay/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/scrollytelling/design.md