I decided to make this into a tutorial for fellow ds106 classmates because I was unsure how to make up icons for any movies and thought it would be helpful to show students how to do that. I decided to use screencast and record my screen which seemed like the easiest way to show what was going on. This inspiration comes from a college class I have had where my professor put the directions up on a movie to show us how to complete the assignment using screencast. I just had to add the extension to my browser and it worked flawlessly.

The original assignment comes from 4 icons and a movie and I completed this assignment a few weeks back but it was a long assignment with a lot of work involved. I thought it would be good to show others a quicker way of doing it after I came up with the idea. After completing the assignment it did not seem as difficult as I once thought it was going to be. I made this tutorial as detailed as I thought necessary to complete it and have it make sense. I enjoyed this tutorial and making it was fun I didn’t mind hearing my voice because I was focused on the screen not how I look. Please watch the video because it really helps in the process.

Today’s tutorial will be about One Story/Four Icons, which is a really cool assignment because I have done it before. The assignment is to reduce a movie, story, or event into its basic elements, then take those visuals and reduce them further to simple four icons.

Step 1 – Pick a movie, story, or event that you want. Make sure that it is something that challenges you to think of four icons that represents that movie, story or event. You might have to do a little research so you can get the idea of it. I will do the Boondock Saints so you can see exactly what I did.

Step 2 – Think of the first icon and find a picture. To do that go on Google Images and type out the word for the first icon and search for the picture that you were thinking of.

Step 3 – Take the picture that you like and then click on Save As onto your desktop or a desired folder.

Step 4 – Look for the other icons too. It will be easier if you look for all of the icons all at once.

Step 5 – Go on Paint and open one icon that you want to use first. Then click on a new Paint . I selected the  Cross picture first, and because it had the signature at the bottom, I erased that. First, I zoomed in on the picture and I clicked on the Eraser button and clicked on the signature to delete it.

Step 6 – Then open the rest of the icons separately in Paint and open a new Paint as well so you can copy and paste the pictures into the new Paint.

Step 7 – Because each picture are different sizes, you will have to play around with sizing the pictures to the desired dimension. Please keep in mind, when copying a picture and pasting it to another Paint, make sure that the picture size is original and not zoomed it. The reason why I say that is because when you try to resize the picture on the new Paint, it will come out blurry. Also, when copying a single picture, you can simply click on the Select under the rectangle and click on Select All. That will select the whole picture that you want and then paste it. To resize it, make sure that the picture is still selected and then click on Resize, which is right next to the Select button. Do the same thing for each one of the pictures.

Step 8 – After all four icons have been sized and next to each other, the next step is to crop the image into a rectangular image.

Step 9 – Then next step is, you decorate your picture however you want to. You may crop the picture and then go to PICFONT to add the words and color to it or simply leave it black and white. It is all up to you.

Step 10 – Lastly, show off your finished product.

You up for the challenge? Because it definitely was a challenge for me.