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As an introductory note: Exhibit A above shows a screen capture of the emoji story I created. Exhibit B was originally the copy-pasted version of the emoji story, which was copied over to WordPress, but ‘broke’ and turned into question marks when I went to publish the blog post.
Synopsis: In this movie, a scrappy young character explores the culinary scene of Paris somewhat vicariously through a new friend. Together, they cook a signature dish to the delight and adoration of a stubborn food critic.
For this task, I tried to create one of my favourite movies in emoji form. In order to reflect on the process, I used the following questions to guide me:
- Did you rely more on syllables, words, ideas or a combination of all of them?
- Did you start with the title? Why? Why not?
- Did you choose the work based on how easy would it be to visualize?
When approaching this task, I chose to use the online emoji keyboard because the keyboard on my iPhone was not updated, so I knew I didn’t have all of the newest emojis. I noted that while having access to a free online version, I was somewhat hindered by my technology. If I had had the most up to date version, I would have had more options to effectively convey information.
To begin, I looked at the emoji keyboard and asked myself what movie would be easy to visually portray using the emojis that were available to me. I went through my mental list of favourite movies. I thought of an idea for a film that I knew I could use emojis to convey a few of the important elements of the plot: the location, the main character and the main activity taking place throughout the film. I chose to include elements of the title of the film and of the film plot itself – hoping that by adding as much visual info as I could, I would be able to reach a wider audience.
I found myself having to get creative with the emojis because the keyboard didn’t have the exact things I was looking for. For instance, I looked for an emoji of the Eiffel Tower, settling eventually for a flag of France. I wanted to use a rat emoji but had to settle for a mouse. And finally, had to use a hot pepper as a stand in for a regular pepper. I got creative with my choices here. Pictorally, there are a lot of deviations from the plot of the film I chose, but represented all together, and especially in the context of this assignment, the emojis should convey the film to those who are familiar with it.