Upon suggestion by the professors in the weekly post, I chose to complete the “One Story/ Four Icons” assignment. I liked the challenge of breaking down a movie into its basic parts and assigning four icons to represent the story. The prompt specifically states: This idea was first suggested by Tom Woodward and has been a long … Continue reading 1, 2, 3, 4…Guess What Movie These Icons Stand For!

One of this week’s design assignments was called, “One Story / Four Icons.” The directions were to “reduce a movie, story, or event into its basic elements, then take those visuals and reduce them further to simple icons, four of them. Write your blog post up but do not give away the answer, let people guess! The challenge is to find the icons that suggest the story, but do not make it so easy.”

Take a guess and comment below what you think this movie could be:

[Worth 2 1/2 Stars]

Click here for the answer.

I used The Noun Project to gather the symbols. Once I found the four I needed, I screenshotted the individual symbols and uploaded them as layers to a blank photoshop image. I merged all the layers together then uploaded to flickr.

My third and final character design assignment I chose to do was One Story / Four Icons. It was one of the suggested ones and I already felt like I had an idea of what I could do for it based on the book cover assignment. I chose to emphasize again what would be emphasized in her autobiography. It’s telling the story of her young life. Being born in Britain yet quickly moving to the USA where she began to develop her love of science and foster her curiosity. I chose to use the same title as the book cover simply to carry over the same story. I tried to use all emojis that could be found on a smart phone sort of in tribute to the Vignelli’s reading I completed earlier. I’m telling the story of a person who lived much earlier on through modern techniques: emojis.

This  design assignment was to take four icons and tell what movie it is. I chose a movie that I have always liked. It was hard to think of four icons for it. but I hope that it isn’t too easy.

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Design Assignment:

One Story / Four Icons 2.5?

For this assignment we had to choose a story and pick four icons that represent that story. I know it said to let people guess, but I actually chose this assignment for my character that not a lot of people know about.

I wanted to do this assignment for my character because I thought it was a perfect opportunity to sum up her story in a very simplistic way. It took me a while to decide which icons I wanted to use to represent her, but in the end I think I got her story right.

The cross on the headstone not only represents her catholic religion, but also the death of her father when she was very young. The two rings represent her and her husbands wedding rings. The chalk out line represents that she works with homicide detectives as a forensic technician.  She specialized in taking photos of crime scenes and evidence so that is why I chose the camera as the last icon.

For this assignment I used the website The Noun Project. I really loved this website. It has almost every icon you could possibly need. I just searched for all the icons I needed and downloaded them to my computer. After that I just used paint to edit the icons together.

This assignment (2 and 1/2 points) was creating a story using four icons so viewers can guess what story is about. But I decided that I want to relate this assignment to my noir character so I made his biography using four icons.

I found these icon from The Noun Project . So This is how it goes. First icon explain that after divorced John Brown’s parents, his mother remarried with a new rich guy, Mark. Mark is really nice guy but when he is drunk, he gets really violent. John Brown suffered from domestic violence and he closed his mind. However, he was a smart guy and his step-father supported him well in education so he was able to become a lawyer and have his own office in Miami, FL.

To do this project, I downloaded four icons that I want to use and uploaded to the Adobe Photoshop, so I put it together.

For my last design assignment this week I did the “One Story Four Icons” assignment and dedicated it to my character Spence. This assignment is worth two and a half points and fulfills the six required character assignment points for the week.

My first step in this assignment was to decide what aspect of Spence’s life I was going to narrate. Though the assignment says not to say what you are narrating, I feel it is necessary to say what I narrated in order to fully discuss my design process. So after much deliberation, I decided to depict how the Highland Corporation was born. I went to the website provided on the assignment page and began scrolling through the hundreds of icons. It was a little overwhelming at first because I tried to justify the use of about 20 of them. After narrowing my pickings down I decided on the following four images:

 This icon depicts two people talking. This is how Spence and Sebastian started out.

 Spence and Sebastian then got an idea while the were talking for a business. This icon represents the idea stage of the company.

 This globe to me represents the both the internet and the world. Being that the Highland Corporation is a global internet stock company, I felt that this image was very fitting to tell the story of what the two boys came up with.

 Finally, this icon represents the ever growing success of the company.

Here is the final image:

Here is a link to the original assignment:

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/one-story-four-icons/

2 1/2 Stars

Can you guess which movie is it? I was inspired to do this movie since it is one of my all time favorites! This film is packed full of notable, important icons. So I picked the ones that would mostly tell the key aspects of the story. When I saw this assignment it was the first movie to come to mind, and so were these icons. It was a relatively easy assignment. I used the noun project which was a pretty cool website. They had all the different icons I could need. I was worried about some of the icons you see above as to if they would have them, and I was surprised when they did. I was also very excited when the second icon turned out to look just the one from the movie! So have you figured it out yet?

The app for my phone is exactly what this design assignment reminded me of.  The game gives you four pictures and you have to guess the word or phrase.  The One Story/ Four Icons (worth 2.5 stars) is one where you have to tell a story/depict a movie/etc. in just four little icons.  I chose this assignment also to deal with my character adding to a grand total of 6 stars for my character for this week.

The first icon depicts a happy man, the second one is a man in the crosshairs of a gun.  The third is a dead man and the fourth is a bad of money.  The story that these icons are trying to depict is a hit that Lawrence is instructed to do.  First there’s a happy-go-lucky man who thinks no one is out to get him when all of a sudden he’s in the crosshairs of someone’s gun and doesn’t even know it.  The next thing he knows he’s a dead man killed by my own Lawrence Spitler and Lawrence goes to collect his money from his boss after the man is dead.  A typical hit.

I chose this assignment because it was suggested on the noir website and I thought it would be cool to tell a story in just four pictures.  I created this picture using the same photo editing program I have used all along and then just screenshotted the final result and posted it to flickr so now you can see it here!  This assignment was not too difficult, just thinking up what story I wanted to tell was the most difficult part!