Storytelling

Visual storytelling is a method used to give the audience a picture in their mind about whats going on without explaining it to them literally. This is principally achieved through 2 techniques: the choice of shots; the way those shots are editing together

Here is an example of storytelling being shown through different shot variations and editing techniques: 

This car gives the audience the impression that its on a long journey with all the edits fading into the next shot of the car showing how the roads are getting emptier and emptier until the road is finally clear. There's no dialogue for a while, this is to let the audience guess whats going on before it gets told to them, This builds up the curiosity and makes the audience feel unsettled.

Later on a massive truck comes into the scene and the camera angles around the truck show how big the truck is in comparison to the small car, this makes the big truck look intimidating,

Apart from the voices coming from the cars radio, the only line of dialog spoken is by the protagonist (main character) to himself 'talk about pollution!' and yet, the shots are edited together in such a way that more meaning is conveyed than the discreet photographs themselves we feel the remoteness, we feel the isolation and we feel the menace this is editorial storytelling,