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- Did you rely more on syllables, words, ideas or a combination of all of them? I relied on ideas for this Emoji Story. The plot line to this TV Series is too complicated to translate into syllables and words since it follows the storyline of 5 main characters from the past, present, and future. I decided to keep it simple and provide only the main ideas of what has happened in the last 6 seasons of this series. I believe that the emojis that I have selected are substantial enough for readers to be able to translate and analyze the plot line.
After reading J.D. Bolter’s chapter titled, The Breakout of the Visual, he describes an ancient rhetoric technique called ekphrasis. He describes this technique by stating that “ekphrasis sets out to rival visual art in words, to demonstrate that words can describe vivid scenes without recourse to pictures. Ekphrasis also indicates that the writer is preoccupied with the visual, for in order to rival the visual, the prose must become descriptive in an effort to find the equivalent of what is “naturally” a visual experience. The attempt to make words do what pictures do might be taken to mean that pictures are primary and words secondary” (p 56). Now with advancement of digital media and popularity with graphic novels, there is now a “reverse ekphrasis in which images are given the task of explaining words” (p 56). Therefore, words aren’t always necessary since text can be replaced by symbols and pictures to convey meaning. What is missing is the prose, emotion, and personal connections that a reader would receive while reading the words.
Did you start with the title? Why? Why not? I did not start with the title because I could not find the correct emojis to replace the words verbatim. I really did want to include the title but I couldn’t figure out how to translate it using only emojis. I figured out why the task was so difficult. The words in the title are not nouns or adjectives and therefore I could not add a symbol to signify the the meaning of the title. The library selection with emojis seems to be all noun based symbols and images. The only non-noun emojis are the expressions which would be an adjective
- Did you choose the work based on how easy would it be to visualize? I chose this work because it is a popular and current TV series that I’m sure people are aware of. The storyline is easy to visualize which made it less of a challenge to explain the plot using emojis. Before emojis were created, Bolter speaks of the interactive verbal text known as a MOO. He argues that a MOO is an example of ekphrasis, where ” the reader follows electronic links from screen to screen and so constructs the text in the act of reading” (p 75). Bolter predicted in his book that “more graphically sophisticated MOOs will no doubt eventually exploit full-motion animation and video, and in the process they will remediate film and television and further diminish the status of any text that appears in this electronic environment” (76). These graphically sophisticated MOOs that Bolter speaks of started with emojis and have now morphed into GIFs. He couldn’t have predicted it any better!
References
Chapter 4. Bolter, J. D. (2001). Writing space: Computers, hypertext, and the remediation of print (2nd ed.). Mahwah, N.J: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. doi:10.4324/9781410600110
Emoji Keyboard Online. https://emojikeyboard.io
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