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We started the project with a simple exercise. Take fifteen minutes to draw the initial concept you have visualized in your head. At the end of this first round, I produced these stark white pages with bright icons in the middle, arranged in sequence.
As I explained what I was trying to do, I said to my fellow classmates that my idea was like a slot machine, a sequence of symbols would be in constant rotation, and as they stopped, the viewer would read them as a phrase and see if they could get what the phrase was trying to say.
The initial feedback was positive, and from it a set of really good suggestions came about. The idea to try and put together a story was one of those main points of feedback. Rather than have standalone phrases, people suggested the idea of constructing a story that had a cohesive beginning and ending, and part of the experience would be to challenge the reader to a test of comprehension. While this tied in particularly well with the initial concept of trying to see if symbols could replace a message, the idea of story seemed like a strong way to think about developing a “language without words”.
From this first pass I was able to form a solid concept. Tell a story with symbols, serve them up to the viewer in sets and have them figure out what the meaning is by asking a final question of weather or not they understood the story.
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