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ds 106: One Story / Four Icons (2 stars)
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I picked one of my favorite web shows for this project, Red vs Blue by Roosterteeth. Though I’m not fully caught up on the story as of today, these icons represent points in the show. The helmet represents the characters in the beginning, as everyone in the beginning of this show wears identical helmets. The sword icon is a key part (pun intended) of the overarching story of this show, and becomes a staple for one character in particular. Next is the symbol for a group of people known as Freelancers, who are at the core of the story in ...
Four Strangers, One Thing
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For the design assignment Four Icons/One Story, I chose to use Stranger Things, set in 1984. I chose this design assignment because it sounded fun and engaging while giving me the freedom to add a 1980s twist to it. I wanted to use Stranger Things as my story because it is one of my all time favorite shows and it fit the theme for our class. First, I started off using Creative Commons image search to find a 1980s related picture I could use as the background. After I found a fitting picture of some random people circa 1980, I ...
Fun BUT Difficult
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Assignments: Our Story/FourIcons This idea was first suggested by Tom Woodward and has been a long standing popular ds106 assignment. 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. For icons a great resource is The Noun Project. This is one of the harder assignments even though it’s so simple. The ...
The Karate Kid
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I picked the Karate Kid for the One Story/ Four Icons because it is one of the 80’s movies that I know by heart. The chopsticks represent Mr. Miyagi’s precise skill and his famous scene of catching flies with them. The washclothe represents all the chores Daniel has to complete for training including wax on/off when cleaning the car. The broken leg represents all the adversity Daniel faces including an injured leg during his final battle. The fist represents Karate which is the premise of the movie.
Four Picture Movie
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For the Four Picture Movie assignment I visited The Noun Project website that the prompt recommended. I thought this would be a simple project which it was, but choosing which icon to use without being too obvious, that was a challenge. There is so many option on this website, so if you are working on … Continue reading “Four Picture Movie”
Four Icons, One Movie
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For my fourth Assignment Bank project I completed the Four Icons/ One Story assignment, as suggested to us. This was a little trickier than I thought. I picked a movie (it’s from the 80’s) and then began the search for Clip Art. It was a challenge to find which icons could be used to tell a story without being too obvious. I had to do a little shopping around. After collecting the images, I placed them into a PowerPoint to align the icons in the configuration I wanted and then converted it to a PNG file. I wasn’t able to come ...
Guess the 80s movie…
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I decided to go with the recommended assignment since I thought it was cool. I also made it related to the theme, which made it more fun for me. I used the recommended website for the icons and then I just used powerpoint to string them next to each other. It was easy to search for the individual icons, but hard to decide which to string together for the cryptic messaging. I think its really easy…but this is also one of my favorite movies, so there’s that too…
One Story / Four Icons
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This was my favorite assignment this week. It really made me have to think. The move that these Icons represent is the 80’s hit movie, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. I felt like this assignment was having me find the 4 most essential elements to the movie. There were things in the move that I felt were more important than the things I included, but they weren’t as broad as I needed. One part of the movie that I would have liked to included was Indiana Jones’ dad, but I feel like just an icon of a dad would ...
Can You Guess the 80s Movie?
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Now that I finally have a bit of a break in my week, I did my first design assignment, One Story / Four Icons on an 80s movie to tie it to our course theme. All of the icons are plot related, whether they pertain to a specific part of the story, the story as a whole, or a particular character. I used clipart for my icons, inserted them into PowerPoint, exported it as a PDF, and then exported it again as an image. What 80s movie do you think I’m referring to here? Comment your thoughts below!
Four Picture Movie
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For my first assignment of the week, I decided to do one of the recommended ones: One Story / Four Icons. This assignment asks you to take a story/movie/whatever and compress the plot into four icons. I thought that this one sounded like fun and was a good transition into design because of it’s simplicity. This is also one where I could apply the 80’s theme. I decided to go about it using the recommended The Noun Project where you can search for some icons that other people have made. It was very nifty! There are a lot of 80’s ...