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This assignment was fun and surprisingly harder than I expected. As someone who only uses emojis to show my own emotions, (happy, laughing, sleepy, etc) it was interesting to see how many emojis are available that I never use. And even with all the options, it was still difficult to portray the plot as accurately as I wanted.
I relied more on the visual actions that took place in the show. Besides the title of the show there were not many words to describe the plot of the show, party because I watched it in a foreign language. I started with the title of the show because it has the most obvious and revealing emoji that easily communicates the name of the show. It is a very popular show and luckily the first word of the title has an emoji.
Coincidentally this was actually the last show I watched. I did take time to think about other movies, books, or shows that would be easier to translate into emojis, but this show had an easy title and the a very unique plot which made it easier to visualize. I am positive that my peers will be able to guess the show by just reading the title even if they didn’t watch the show. For those who did watch the show, I hope they enjoy the creativity I tried to put to explain the plot as much as possible. I would love to know what other ideas others would have used to describe the show.
Reflecting on the reading by Bolter, I can see how his discussion of visual representation connects to this activity. He points out that when we read a story, we automatically imagine details that aren’t written on the page, filling in the gaps with our own interpretations. Creating an emoji summary felt like the reverse of that. I had to condense a full, visual experience into simplified symbols. Both highlight how much interpretation and imagination are involved in making meaning, whether we’re reading text, watching a show, or communicating through images. It made me think about how each medium limits and expands expression in different ways, and how we, as the audience, fill in what’s missing.
Reference
Bolter, J. D. (2001). Writing space: Computers, hypertext, and the remediation of print (2nd ed.). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
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