For ds106 Visual Assignment Four Icon Challenge
Reduce a movie, story, or event into it’s basic elements, then take those visuals and reduce them further to simple icons.
I am a horrible free drawer, so I set up a set of frames in PhotoShop, imported some images found (somewhere on the internet), and did some tracing and brushing.
Sot quite as elegant as the example, oh well. ds106= opportunity to break rules
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This is awesome, figuring out when my movie will be now. I love this assignment, and your choices are brilliant here. No question about the film, obviously. But there is something else going on as well, a form of editing the film in your imagination.
I get it and I love it! Tom of Bionic Teaching http://bit.ly/eT3fOt and I have been talking about what a great assignment this would be for English teachers as we try to expand the concept of literacy to include visual literacy.
A literary criticism that we hold dear is Rosenblatt’s Reader Response — that one’s response to literature is personal, unique, a transaction between the reader and the text.
I really like Jim’s idea that when we respond (to text or graphics or movies or any media) that we’re doing our own unique editing.
We are our own editors and we become better creators as our editing improves. It’s an odyssey, right?
Thanks; I think it might be frames a bit more. What I did, and what I see a lot of people doing in class so far is pretty literal– I picked 4 elements/moments of the story and put them in that order, cause that is easiest.
What could be the prompt that would get people to go deeper? Four icons that represent the emotion during the movie? The tensions?
Got some suggestions for you, Alan. My class had a good time with this assignment. See the results — http://virtuallyfoolproof.com/?p=187
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awesome. I can hear the screaming fluid when the hot poker was stabbed into the petri dish sample…
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I love it! The first icon had me stumped, but the next three made it click http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075860/I want to speak to the man in charge!
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What movie is this?
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I think it’s Old Yeller.
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It’s clearly The Monkees: Head (1968). Jim always sticks with the classics.
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@Cali4Beach,
This is the John Carpenter’s re-make of The Thing (1982). One of my favorite films of all time.
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Future topic for Bavathursdays: Eco-Horror movies of the 70s and 80s
Stuff like Frogs, Food of the Gods, Piranha, Orca, Prophecy, hell, even Jaws. Just a thought…
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Oh, and SSSSSS, because the great and powerful Dirk Benedict was in it.
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[...] Alan Levine wisely asked how we might ratchet up this assignment a bit to make it more challenging and creative. So I gave these newbie and experienced teachers the challenge and they came up with some great ideas. Sorry to say that “2001: A Space Odyssey” eluded them, too, Alan. I have a very young class. [...]
John Carpenter’s The Thing is a classic. There’s a really creepy video game version which is incredibly difficult, but also very compelling. In the game you have to keep your colleagues from going insane and also figure out which of them is The Thing. It’s one of the few games that’s made me jump in fright.
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At last! Someone who uendsrtadns! Thanks for posting!