Reducing a movie into 4 icons is fun! I had a movie in mind as soon as I saw the assignment on the week 6 blog, so I knew I had to do it! I used my picsart app again to copy and paste the icons in somewhat of an order, although the order doesn’t matter. 1 Hint for you guys is that this movie is a series with 6 almost 7 movies out!

For this assignment, we were suppose to take a movie or story and explain it only using four icons! I absolutely love movies, so the hard part wasn’t thinking of a movie, it was trying to pick from all the movies that I wanted to use. Once I finally figured out what movie I wanted to use it was easy to choose the icons to explain the movie. I picked this movie because it is one of my mom’s favorite stories of all time and I feel that it is easy to represent the important symbols in the movie. I got my icons off of Google, once I found the images I wanted I just saved them to my media library and uploaded them to word press. It was very easy to find them, and I think they do a great job of explaining the plot of the movie. I really enjoyed doing this assignment and I feel it turned out great. Good luck GUESSING!!!

For the design assignment One Story/Four Icons I had a hard time deciding what movie to do. I was thinking of a classic like Star Wars but I have already done plenty of assignments based on that. Then I was trying to think of some comedies that would be good to do four icons with. Then it came to me an infamous scene from a famous movie. Thanks to the nounproject website finding all the icons I needed was simple. I actually had a bit of trouble unzipping the icons once I downloaded them, so I opened them into paint and then re-saved them as JPEGs. Then I moved all four of my icons into google docs and saved the file.

Photo Credits:

Pasquale Cavorsi: Couple

Erik Wagner: Gun

Jinju Jang: Fast-Food

Ben Cunningham: Briefcase

This assignment is worth 2.5 stars.

Assignment Link (2.5 Stars)

Guess the movie based from the four above icons!

When I saw this assignment, I got really excited to see what movie I could represent through four icons but as soon as I picked the movie I wanted, it was a lot harder than I thought it would be. I chose one of my all time favorite action movies, and I chose to represent it by using a soldier, helicopter, rocket launcher, and a runner, where all four have significant roles throughout the movie. I have seen this movie several times, and it is always a great watch, not just because of the action, but the story behind the movie as well. I also wanted to a choose a movie that wasn’t too difficult for me to create and too difficult for others too guess. So hopefully, this won’t turn out to be a long term guessing game.

I used NounProject for all my icons in my story, and I had no problem downloading the icons themselves. Now, I don’t personally own photoshop, unfortunately, but I was able to use google drawings to place my images in a simple format without anything fancy.

Credits for Photos:

Soldier by Luis Prado

Helicopter by Marat

Rocket Launcher by Blaise Sewell

Runner by Christopher T. Howlett

Original Assignment (2.5 Stars)

There were so many movies running through my head when I started this assignment. For some reason, I wanted to pick a film that was gritty/ruthless. The four icons I displayed represent, greed, murder, money, and deception. Many people consider this film to be a classic. Without giving too much away, the director and main actor in this movie are considered to be some of Hollywood’s greats. There  a few movies that may come to mind when glancing at the icons, but I know someone will get it correct. I’ve watched this flick many times because sometimes I miss certain things that I won’t catch until the second/third time around.

In Photoshop

Thanks to the Noun Project, I was able to download some nice icons that fit the theme of my story. I threw them in Photoshop and placed them side by side, creating different layers. Then I added two layers of text and some horizontal lines to (somewhat) spruce it up a bit. Overall, it’s a pretty basic black/white layout, didn’t want to get all fancy and crazy with it. Happy guessing my fellow classmates.

Credits:

The-Futurists (Mob) designed by Giacomo Palamara

Money designed by Atelier Iceberg

Poker-Chips designed by Claire Jones

Murder designed by Ricardo Augusto Cherem

2 1/2 stars

For my first design assignment I did the four icon story assignment, which asked us to take a story we know well and parse it down to four visual icons in a minimalist manner.

I feel like this story is pretty easy to guess, but I’m very happy with the way it came out. It’s one of my favorite stories, and one I know a lot of people enjoy as well. I pulled all the icons from The Noun Project, which is an incredible resource for icons and clipart. I was really amazed by the quality.

Instead of making it plain black and white, I wanted to give the story some texture. I made this in Photoshop by creating a beige background and applying a texture layer to make it look like paper. Then I downloaded and placed all of the individual icons. It still looked a little bare though, so I started playing around with lines. Eventually I made a few tiny triangles, liked the way they looked, and copy and pasted until they resembled a line. I like how they look like tiny mountain ranges (which ties pretty well into the story, if you’re familiar with it.)

I’m a really big fan of minimalist design, and I love how this turned out. The project was actually really fun, and I considered a lot of books before deciding on this one. It make me think about stories in a visual manner for the first time, and I wanted to choose something that would truly represent the story so that viewers would see it and immediately think “I know that!”

Dragon 

Pipe

Mountain

The ring was Free Domain

I’m thinking of a movie, your only four hints are a microphone, drugs, a guitar, and love. It didn’t take me long to come up with a movie to use for this project. The harder part was representing the movie in just four pictures, and not giving away what movie I was using. The movie is one of my all time favorites, and I am afraid to say anything else, because I really don’t want to give it away. Leave some comments and see if you can guess the movie.

This assignment is worth 2.5 Stars!