For this task, we needed to tell the story of a piece of fiction through only emojis. Below is a screenshot of my narrative:

Reflection

In order to do this task, I relied wholly on the ideas of the plot. If I were to rely on indicating individual words or syllables, the narrative would take many pages to convey as it is an extremely dense plot. It is a story about movement; everything in the plot is defined by movement and traversing different landscapes. Hence, the majority of the emojis utilised rely upon indicating the movement of groups. Individual words were occasionally emphasised when signifying specific objects related to the plot, but it was always in service to the movement of the scenes.

I did start with the title for this piece, as it is the most easily identifiable. Starting with the title somewhere at the beginning is also common practice within prescriptive writing rules in order to situate the reader in the context of the narrative, be it through written word or through images. It provides foreshadowing for the key events to come, and indicates what the focus shall be. In this case, there are rings, kings, and alliances or friendships which dominate the entirety of the narrative. 

Choosing this work was natural in two ways; it is the most recent piece of media which I have consumed,  and it is the only recent work that is unrelated to what I have already discussed in other tasks for this course. I wanted to reflect upon something new, even though the narrative and flow are as familiar to me as the back of my hand, having consumed this same piece of work many times before throughout my life. 

NOTE: This post may be edited as I go through my colleagues’ posted tasks and guess what they’ve narrated through emojis!