{"id":41,"date":"2020-06-17T23:16:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T06:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shawnetec540\/?p=41"},"modified":"2020-06-18T22:08:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T05:08:41","slug":"task-6-an-emoji-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shawnetec540\/2020\/06\/17\/task-6-an-emoji-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Task 6: An Emoji Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-44 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shawnetec540\/files\/2020\/06\/An-Emoji-Story.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"409\" height=\"191\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Did you rely more on syllables, words, ideas or a combination of all of them?<\/p>\n<p>The task specified not to write anything orthographically, so I relied heavily on symbols to represent words and partial words. I felt I cheated a little using the (M) emoji to combine with a cup of tea to form a word. It is recurring and essential to the synopsis of the movie. I&#8217;m not even sure if it makes any sense to anyone else but myself.<\/p>\n<p>Did you start with the title? Why? Why not?<\/p>\n<p>I started with the title for two reasons. First, it was easy to find emojis to represent the title, and second, having the title at the beginning gives more context to the synopsis. I think figuring out the title is essential to figuring out the rest of the emoji story, for the reader.<\/p>\n<p>Did you choose the work based on how easy would it be to visualize?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>I chose the movie based on what I had watched recently and what I thought would be easy to describe in emojis. I was wrong. After the title, the synopsis was actually very difficult to describe only using emojis. I would come up with an idea of how to summarize the movie, but then wasn&#8217;t able to find the emojis to express what I wanted to write. Then I changed how I wanted to write the summary, based on the looking at the emojis available to me, but still not able to communicate it completely. It was a long and arduous process going back and forth between these two processes. Using emojis to communicate many thoughts is limiting, interesting, and kind of frustrating.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I completed the task on my iPhone, as it had a wider selection of emojis than any of the online emoji keyboards but this presented a problem. When I emailed it to myself, it was only as large as the iPhone screen and enlarging it made the resolution a little fuzzy. As another cheat and to clarify the figure on the first two rows of the synopsis is a businessman emoji and the emoji at the end of the second line is an abacas. In the end, I hope it makes some sense.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you rely more on syllables, words, ideas or a combination of all of them? The task specified not to write anything orthographically, so I relied heavily on symbols to represent words and partial words. I felt I cheated a little using the (M) emoji to combine with a cup of tea to form a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-task-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shawnetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shawnetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shawnetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shawnetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shawnetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shawnetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shawnetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shawnetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shawnetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shawnetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}