For the Visual Thinking and Symbols list of assignments,

I chose One Story/Four Icons.

Thinking of a movie to create out of four symbols was the first step, and ultimately the hardest. I thought of movie after movie, and each one I came up with, I felt as if the symbols I would have chosen would have been way too easy, and the point of this assignment was for it to not be easily figured out. After I chose the movie, I thought of symbols to use. To find the symbols, I started using The Noun Project but then found as if I wanted pictures/symbols with a little more pizazz than just black and white for this project. I ended up using good ole’ Google. After scrambling through each picture on Google, I chose the final four and saved them. I then opened a Paint document and pasted each picture/symbol in the order I felt as they would fall in the movie storyline.

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The four pictures/symbols I chose represented the main places of the movie as well as major symbols of what took place at the beginning, middle, and end.

If you haven’t figured the movie out:

Here it is!

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I selected some of the images for this assignment from the internet, and some I created on my own. I just placed them into MS Paint in the order of the story. I really liked this story when I was first introduced to it. I regularly enjoy a solid drama, but there are times when I just want to be a goofball. I am not sure how to write a back story for this assignment without giving it away, so I will cut this short and leave it up to you to figure out.

Did you get the right answer?

This is my One Story, Four Icons assignment (worth 2.5 stars) for The Wire S2E9, “Stray Rounds.” I used a gun because of the opening sequence with the shoot out and the  boy being shot. I used a computer because of the continued monitoring of the docks. I used the phone and the prostitute because McNulty called up the brothel and then went undercover. I used clipart off google, and used photoshop to put them all together and add the text.

These four elements are often the backbone of superhero origin stories – the film I chose for this assignment isn’t such an origin story, but it certainly contains these four elements, in that order. The protagonist is born to a loving family that is later torn away from him in a horrible accident (no, this is not Batman. I already said this wasn’t about a superhero.), he overcomes this tragedy through plot and character growth, and in the end, ultimately triumphs over the antagonist. I’m not quite sure how to go into more detail without giving away the film itself, but I will say it was made in the 1990s. Consider the icons. I don’t think I made it difficult to guess the movie

In this one, I used GIMP to put all the images on a black background, and cropped or resized each of them to a square-ish size. The first image is from an outside site, and the second, third, and fourth ones are actually tooltips for Druid talents in World of Warcraft, whose library of icons was one of the first things I looked at for this assignment. The sheer number of abilities, items, and spells that all require individual icons made it a rich library to peruse. Credit to Blizzard for those.

- David

sooo what is the novel???

I just used google.  I had issues with the noun project.

I copy and pasted them into power point and saved it as a jpeg

Try And Guess My Favorite Movie!

This movie and I go way, way back. All the way back to the year 2000. I was almost 9 years old at that time. The movie is based off a true story and is an incredible display of people of all races coming together during the difficult time of racial integration in schools all over the country, this movie focuses on one Virginia county’s story. It’s not all progress though, you are still able to witness a plethora of the tragedies happening in the south during that time. I have probably seen this movie close to 150 times. I know all the words, have the soundtrack downloaded to my iPod, and frequently make references to the film. I have so much more to say, but I don’t want to give it away.

Check back in a week for the answer. I’m very curious to see some of these guesses!

My Process:

I used an icon I found on the Noun Project and then several other icons from Google Images to illustrate my favorite movie. I lined the icons up one after another and saved the image. Then I uploaded it, and embedded it into this blog post.

Here my hint is this TV show is be back on Monday at 9pm. It has been off the air since May 24, 2010.

I took a play from Randi’ Candy’s blog! I found the images on Nounproject. Happy Guessing, Here is the answer!