Syllables, words, ideas

I relied mainly on words and ideas, especially with emoji’s you have to get a little creative and some ideas may stretch farther than others to connect to specific words/places/people and other representations of a movie. If I consider how reading is modified in this multimedia environment I would refer to the saying of “a picture is worth a thousand words” and slightly modify it to say “an emoji is worth representing a chunk of plot” for the purposes of this task.

Starting with the title

Yes, I started with the title. There was a specific emoji I wanted to use in the title as I use it throughout the rest of my emoji story, this emoji acts as a representation of a specific place and as this was the closest emoji I could find I wanted to ensure readers could pick it out from the beginning (I thought this representation is made more obvious in the title). I also started with the title because the emojis were what came to mind almost immediately when I thought of this task.

Visualization

I had two choices to pick from recently viewed material, and although one was pretty comical to visualize, I chose the other for its, say… appropriateness and challenge, or more “complex orchestration”. I had a rough idea of what emojis may be possible to use and highlight the key features or ideas, however, I was surprised by the lack of emojis I thought would be available and the ones that were available. I definitely had to improvise or create some looser connections of ideas to representation but in the end, I think I was able to find at least some sort of visual representation for my word or idea.

References

Bolter, J. D. (2001). Writing space: Computers, hypertext, and the remediation of print. (2nd ed). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.