Can a picture paint a thousand words?

Have you attended wedding dinners before? Ever wondered what the usual programs or activities are during the dinner? It is usually the emcees doing the opening, then introducing a video clip of photos of the bride and groom from young till now, before the couple into the ballroom. This is a typical kind of opening for a wedding dinner.

Last night, I went to my cousin’s wedding. Her husband and her are quite “arty farty” kind of people, so instead of doing the photo collage, they came up with a comic strip – hand drawn by themselves. It was based on the lyrics of a song. As the song went on, the story develops. It was a different feel although I reckon that our elders understood what the comic strip was talking about.

It got me thinking, does a picture really paint a thousand words, like how the song goes? Somehow if you put many pictures together and have a song with the lyrics to go them, it does paint – well, maybe not a thousand words – but at least a story that everyone is able to relate to. Just like translation.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToEPFDIzhNA