Can you guess what I watched and what it was about?

Choosing the last movie, TV show or book I watched or read and depicting that in an emoji story without writing anything orthographically was a challenging activity.  At first, I thought this was going to be an easier task than it actually was. Without giving too much away, I had just recently viewed the series but chose to focus on one part of the series. I began with the title and right away I started having difficulties as I was disappointed with the variety of available emojis to convey the title. I tried both the emoji keyboard on the computer (https://emojikeyboard.io/) as well as my mobile (iPhone) to see if there was a difference of options to use. They were basically the same other than I could put the name of my emoji in the search bar on my phone, which was not available on the laptop version.

I did find it easier to begin with the title and then try to build the plot from there. This was also difficult as I again struggled with locating the emojis I wanted to use. If the initial emoji I wanted wasn’t there, then I needed to figure out what I was going to substitute for the one I wanted. In doing so, I risked changing the story that I wanted to share. I tried to find an emoji that would convey the entire word I wanted to use as when I tried to use syllables or chunk the words into different emojis then the meaning started to change as well. Given that Bolter (2001, Ch. 4, 47) says, “Digital media claims to achieve greater immediacy and authenticity by integrating images (and sound) with prose,” then relying just on the image to convey the meaning could be problematic. The use of both the text and the image almost need to be woven together to exact the meaning of what is being portrayed. When I use the emoji icons in a text message I often only use a handful to state what I want to say and if there is confusion on the side of the person receiving the message, then I have a faster and immediate ability to correct. With just using emojis to convey a longer passage, the longer the passage, the more the increase in misunderstandings. As Bolter (2001) says, “Such icons are meant to put the verbal text in context, as the writer tries to enforce a univocal interpretation on prose that is otherwise open to many interpretations.” In using the emoji icons, we use them to portray an emotion to short bursts of text messages and sometimes the meaning could be misinterpreted. We then rely on using the written words to craft more descriptive responses. So to reiterate, creating my story plot and title in only emojis without written text woven in to support the information was a difficult task. I wonder then if you can figure out the title and then the plot I was trying to explain through my use of emojis?

References:

Bolter, J. D. (2001). Chapter 4. Writing space: Computers, hypertext, and the remediation of print (2nd ed.). Mahwah, N.J: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. doi:10.4324/9781410600110