It's said that it is always better to read a book before the movie, and I feel that is completely true. The book gives the audience a completely different feel and meaning that movies just cant provide. Books allow you to use your imagination and to characterize using your own judgment. Movies give authors, or in this case producers, the chance to tell the story the way that they want it to be told. With actual physical examples of characters and situations.
There are many different techniques that make visual storytelling effective.
1) Camera angle and focus: Without directly telling you what is important in a scene, the differing focus of the camera can imply important details you should pay attention to. A good example is when a character has a disability or something, the camera may be pointed at pictures of when they were able bodied to show that they weren't always that way, which is indirect characterization.
2) Leitmotif: a recurring theme throughout a literary or musical composition associated with a particular person or situation. This could help the audience to know when an event is about to happen such as in a scary movie there is the loud screeching sound before something scary happens.
3) Order of events: sometimes in movies it will start at the end of the story to capture the audiences attention right away. It makes them want to keep watching to find out how and why that dramatic end result happened. Another example is if there is a flashback, that is an event that happened in the past, but is happening in the present because it has some significance to the character and is important to the plot.
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