This assignment requires us to take a movie and reduce it to four icons that symbolize the major parts of the story. Here are my four icons, but you’ll need to guess what film it is! If you’re stuck, here are some more clues:

• The movie was released in 1980
• It is based in Chicago
• It focuses around a musical genre

Good luck!

The film I chose is one of my all-time favorites, and it has enough symbols within it to easily break down into simple images. I found these icons on the Noun Project website, and in accordance with using them for free, I left the credits underneath their respective pictures. Once I finished collecting them, I organized them in Paint.Net.

I liked doing this project a great deal, thanks to its simplicity in design. Symbols make up our world and help us communicate, and creating a system to express an entire movie was a challenge worthy of doing. Hopefully the symbols I chose are clear enough to get the idea across!

This assignment was really neat, mainly because I enjoyed looking at the image representations for each word that can be found at The Noun Project. These simplistic icons are just fun to look at. I finally decided on representing a modern western movie and it’s story. I picked out the icons that not only portrayed what I wanted to get across, but looked visually appealing together. I put them together using the freephototool website. Guess which movie I tried to represent with these four icons and you win brownie points!

I just completed the one story, four icons assignment.

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

I chose four icons that represent a movie.

I used symbols found on the internet to create a simple design. After obtaining the images, I resized them all to try to balance out the overall image.

Problems weren’t encountered during the completion of this assignment.

For this design assignment worth three stars, I created a story using symbols found in Harry Potter. For those who are not fans of the book/movie series, some of these symbols would be unrecognizable. But for those that enjoy the series, these symbols mean a lot to the viewer and convey a story!

The first symbol is a pair of glasses and a scar, which represents Harry Potter. The next is the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry crest, which symbolizes the four houses of the school. The next is the symbol 9 3/4, which is the platform number of the train that Harry and all his friends get on and takes them from the Muggle world to the Wizard world. The last is the most important symbol in all the series, which stands for the Deathly Hallows. The vertical line represents the Elder Wand, the circle represents the Resurrection Stone and the triangle represents the Cloak of Invisibility.

These symbols all tell important factors in the Harry Potter series, and convey the message of the last book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.