This task seemed easy at first but turned out to be a challenge. I just chose the last movie that I saw. Initially I thought it would not be too hard since the premise of the movie was simple enough. I started off with the title but learned soon enough that it’s going to be hard with all movies. I began by focusing on all the words, then ended up going for the common nouns, then tried to use emojis for ideas. However, even with a plethora of emojis available to choose from, I was still struggling to come up with appropriate ones to describe the movie. For instance, I wanted to include a ‘road’ emoji but could not find it. It made me realize how we’ve gotten used to the availability of so many emojis that describe almost every experience we feel when not so long ago, we only had a handful of emojis available to choose from. And even though I do use emojis often to communicate and express how I feel, it can be hard to use them for things such as movie plots. When Bolter (2001) said,
“Words no longer seem to carry conviction without the reappearance as a picture of the imagery that was latent in them”(p. 51).
It made me reflect on my own emoji use in my daily life and it was obvious that if I wanted to say something that I thought might offend someone, I would include a silly emoji to show it’s not that serious. I started conveying emotion through emojis or hiding what I actually meant to say.
References:
Bolter, J. D. (2001). Writing space: Computers, hypertext, and the remediation of print (2nd ed). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.