The activities and examples displayed in class today really eased my anticipations for project 1. The powerpoint example showed me a way to create movement with a powerpoint presenatation, which I was unsure if we could do before today. Sandy also explained that we can draw the project and download a picture of it onto our blog. The ideas everyone else came up with were along the lines of my own ideas: just a concrete poem of some sort. I now imagine the project to include a simple poem or other text that has been recreated with different color, layout, and etc. I'm really interested in rearranging the words or even the letters to create some kind of motion for the poem. I'd also like to vary the font size and type to emphasize the meaning of words. Lastly, every color has a connotation; the different connotation to every individual could make a concrete poem more meaning specific to each person.
The poem I worked with today is This is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams. I chose this poem because it is short and is often manipulated for various interpretations. I'm not sure I want to use this poem because it is so popular and I typically choose more outlandish texts. However, for the sake of making the goals of my first multimedia project obtainable, I should use a simple text and focus on expanding my ideas. I might write my own version of the poem in order to incorporate more open ideas than simply taking a plum out of an icebox. Maybe I'll apologize for stealing my friend's boyfriend and use crazy text in angry patterns. A more abstract idea sounds interesting, but I can't think of anything abstract to steal and from who I would steal from at the moment. In the meantime, I'm going to search for other short poems (although I don't think I'll find many shorter than This is Just to Say) and experiment with my ideas. I usually process too many ideas at once for projects like these, so I'm going to try to set some goals before I start on anything permanent.
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Jennifer: First off, the sample/in class image you created is excellent. Really in line with what we're doing. Second, you could just work with that - with the Williams poem - and perhaps add a bit more. Or, as you say, write your own. I think you can be at least as good as Williams. Take his own, banal everyday observation and write something similar for you - "apologize for stealing my friend's boyfriend and use crazy text in angry patterns," as you say - and then work it up as you did with the Williams poem. It will be excellent.
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