Please guess what story these pictures represent!
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Please guess what story these pictures represent!
From the assignment One Story / Four Icons: This idea was first suggested by Tom Woodward and has been a long standing popular ds106 assignment, but mis-filed in the Visual Assignments category (see the 80+ examples done there). This is really a design task, so hang ‘em here from now on. The assignment is 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. (3 stars)
I drew all of these on paint (that little accessory thing on my computer).
Good luck. I hope it’s not too easy. Poo.
Design Assignment Count: 3
Okay then let’s start with the imgae:
Now while you ponder it let me pontificate about how I made this assignment. At first I wanted to make the images on my computer, but then I realized I was bad at drawing on a computer, and using clip art would have looked lame in my opinion. In the end I decided to just free hand it, and scan the image onto my computer. While this makes the finished product not look as clean as some of the others I kind of like the human element hand drawn images evoke.
The trickiest part for me was picking a movie. I’ve said multiple times on this website I love the concept of story reduction. Love it. Can’t emphasize that enough. Once you figure out what movie this is, you’ll probably get a little chuckle. Guesses go in comments. On Monday I’ll announce the winner. HIIOOOOOO!!!
I did this one first, worth 3 stars.
Here’s the image:
I chose these images off a simple google search, simply because other websites did not have the icons I needed. The four icons featured are a girl, a barber chair, a razor and pie. It took a while for me to come up with the movie I wanted to base my icons on, but I really love this movie (hint: it’s a Tim Burton one). The challenge was picking only four elements of the story. The razor was the first one that came to mind, then the girl (it’s always a girl isn’t it), then the pie, then the barber chair. I think all four of these embody the movie in ways that other icons wouldn’t. Once I located my images, I put them into Picasa and arranged them into a collage. Then, I uploaded my image to flickr, and voila!
If you haven’t guessed the movie yet, it’s Sweeney Todd.
I came across the One Story/Four Icons and thought it looked really cool and a bit challenging. You come up with 4 distinct elements that describe a story. The challenge for me was to come up with a story I could come up with 4 different elements that would describe it. I went through a few of the recent movie stories, but none of them worked out the way I wanted. So, I went into my memories of the oldies but goodies and got to work using clip art from Microsoft Word. I’m not giving the answer out so guessing is good!
Guess away!!
I’ve been following Jim Groom’s “Name that 80s movie” 4 icon challenge series, and while he promised that they would become more difficult, I think the many summers I spent glued to the TV watching HBO for hours on end gives me an unfair advantage (I totally nailed the Flash Gordon one). I thought I’d try to up the “name that obscure movie” difficulty level, and while it was entertaining for myself to put together the following 4 icon challenge (I learned how to make a parchment-like background in Adobe Illustrator), I’m not sure if I did actually come up with something that will stump anybody….at least not anyone who is halfway decent with Google searching. Think you can name the this movie?
I continue to fiddle with the 4 icon challenge concept, this time blending both icons and actual images, one of those images laying over another. It’s not that I think it adds to the piece any, I’m just having some fun as I mess around with trying to visually represent the major elements of the story.
If you haven’t read any of my previous posts about the 4 icon challenge, you can check out how visually summarizing a movie, book, or other story is both really easy using tech, and is a great way for students to summarize major story elements, while having a bit of fun.
image credits:
vitruvian man - http://thenounproject.com/noun/vitruvian-man/#icon-No2532
gold brick - http://www.officialpsds.com/Gold-Bricks-PSD31100.html
mask – http://www.denbigharmysurplus.co.uk/army-stores/balaclava004.jpg
cup – http://thenounproject.com/noun/coffee/#icon-No16
Don’t think about it to hard.
Experimenting a bit with The Noun Project and Illustrator before today’s Breakfast Club edition of ds106, and figured I would throw out another 80s movie 4 icon challenge because I can!
The Noun Project Credits:
Television by The Noun Project
VHS Tape by Ted Mitchner
Lips by Davide Eucalipto
Gun by Simon Child
School’s out for the summer.* I’ve dedicated at least part of today to ds106 work, finally. I’m working on a Creative Commons poster, but I’m stuck trying to put the CC icon on there. I haven’t given up yet but I did decide to take a break.
Instead I did the One Story/Four Icons assignment. I’ve enjoyed seeing the work of others on this assignment and it seemed doable. I may try some other movies soon as well. The Noun Project made this pretty simple.
*The kids are done but I still have three days next week of meetings and packing up.
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