Great job on your post.
Like you, I was cognizant of the fact that readers would be working through my story from left to right, top to bottom. I had difficulty positioning some of the emojis to ensure that people would view the storyline correctly and chronologically. In my movie of choice, a lot of people get unalived and the pistol only points in one direction, so I tried to make it clear who was attacking who.
It was also very wise of you to consider whether the content of your movie would be easily ‘read’ by your audience. Immediately, I knew your movie was Kung Fu Panda. I did not have such foresight, and opted for an action/thriller that was very difficult to relay through emoji (to be honest, I’m not sure I could relay it through speech and it was an abysmal choice). The complexity of the interactions and the plot were much more than the emojis afforded me. I found that I got bogged up in the details, and I should’ve slimmed it down as you did in order to create a simpler, more digestible plot line.
You mentioned the difficulty that arises from using visuals to communicate, and the double (or multiple) meanings that they can have, and also that you typically use emojis to help convey tone or emotion behind what you are saying. It would be interesting to compare people’s perspectives of what ‘tones’ or meanings different emojis represent to different people, particularly when we are looking at how different age groups interpret and utilize different emojis.
– Katy ^_^