Feelings on Project 2

The hardest part about project 2 has been deciding what type of writing to do. I finally decided on using a poem. I wanted to incorporate images that portrayed the different lines of the poem. It was hard trying to find and decide upon what images and where but I think I have it narrowed down after a few edits and trims. I like the way the images tie into one another but are still different in there own way. I am still trying to sync up the audio with the images and I have it almost right. I decided to speak the poem and use the words as the audio but I am also thinking about perhaps putting in some background noise behind the text.

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Response 4

I chose the poem Explosion At Winco No.9 because it is a poem with alot of emotion in it. There are pauses that when read aloud and change the effect of the voice and time. The poem through the eyes of a coal camp widow, can be read with strength and with weakness at different points. I heard the author,Diana Gilliam Fisher,read this poem and after hearing her read it the poem took on a whole new feel to me.
The music I chose to play in the background was to emphasize the overall feeling of the poem. The song Wayfaring Stranger by Butch Baldassari and David Schnaufer is a dulcimer and mandolin piece that would be played in a coal camp of that period. I wanted to pauses in the voice and pitches in the music to work together to compose the overall feeling of the piece.

Project Two Blog

Link to Project Two here

Ideas on 2nd project

I have not decided what poem or narrative I will write or use. I plan on using a sequence of pictures over using video but I have not completely ruled out video. I want the sound that will accompany the pictures and narrative to have an emphasis, to make the viewer better understand or get a real feeling from that moment in the sequence. Im not sure if the projects writing or sound has to have rhythym or repition or if it can be just a normal sound or flow. I think playing with audacity and windows movie maker might help fuel some ideas and give me a better understanding of the media we will be using.

Response Three

McCloud shows the different ways that cartoons show the elapse of time. This is done with frame size or text in most cases but in the case of Zombie and Mummy the creator uses how the viewer scrolls the screen to break the time frames into sequence. I think that it is a more modern and perhaps better way for the viewer to understand the concept of time changing and scene change. The viewer cannot see the previous frame when reading the current scene and that gives not only a implied time lapse but a more physical idea of time. The scrolling also aides in the sequence that the cartoon flows. Rather than having multiple scenes on one page and having the viewer follow the scene in hopefully the right order, the viewer has no choice but to read in the order that the cartoons appear on the page. Idea of sequential writing does not always mean that the story must follow a single plot line. With Carl Stories the viewer can create many different story lines to end up with the end of the story. Choosing the longest or shortest path to the end. This is breaking apart the idea of the cartoon story following frame after frame till the end. Geniwaite uses this idea in a way with The Night of Melvin’s Murder. With the link associated with the characters name and phrases. If the reader chose to click the link not in the order of the text but instead in a random fashion they would be reading a different story altogether. By choosing which one to click and when, as the reader clicks the links they find out pieces of the story in different orders, so each reader will get the story in a totally different way. Both time frame and sequence can change the way a viewer understands and perceives a story.

Project One: Final

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I learned in this project that it is not just about what we read but how we read it. You must break down the art of reading and see all the different responses our body has. The combination of imagery with writing forces the body to break the page apart into image and word. When you can combine the two, you will have a greater impact on the body.
I wanted to achieve with this project a sense of movement with the text. I wanted the implied movement from the image to reflect the movement as the text appears. Imagine the text as a fly line in motion through the air. As each section appears that is a stage of casting the line. This continues until the line lands softly on the waters surface.
The colors I chose for the text are meant to represent the colors of the rivers and of the fish. I hoped that they would reflect those colors from the image and also give a perceived idea of the colors found on a rainbow trout.
A big part of inspiration came from the Cummings poem; “r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r” my text is not reversed or jumbled it has movement, which may make the piece harder to follow. In Cummings’s poem, the movement of the text seems to me like it could imply a leap from the grasshopper.
The kinesthetic involved in viewing my project is the use of inner sight and inner speech. The viewer will first see the image and start to imagine a dialogue that would accompany it. Then as the text appears, the viewer will be reading the text while trying to connect it with the image in the background.
I got the quote for my project from FlyFishingJoy.com. Charles Kuralt wrote the quote and I took the photograph. I thought that the image included some of the key points of the quote. I hope that the viewer will be able to understand the link between the text and the image.

Project One

I learned in this project that it is not just about what we read but how we read it. You must break down the art of reading and see all the different responses our body has. The combination of imagery with writing forces the body to break the page apart into image and word. When you can combine the two, you will have a greater impact on the body.
I wanted to achieve with this project a sense of movement with the text. I wanted the implied movement from the image to reflect the movement as the text appears. Imagine the text as a fly line in motion through the air. As each section appears that is a stage of casting the line. This continues until the line lands softly on the waters surface.
The colors I chose for the text are meant to represent the colors of the rivers and of the fish. I hoped that they would reflect those colors from the image and also give a perceived idea of the colors found on a rainbow trout.
A big part of inspiration came from the Cummings poem; “r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r” my text is not reversed or jumbled it has movement, which may make the piece harder to follow. In Cummings’s poem, the movement of the text seems to me like it could imply a leap from the grasshopper.
The kinesthetic involved in viewing my project is the use of inner sight and inner speech. The viewer will first see the image and start to imagine a dialogue that would accompany it. Then as the text appears, the viewer will be reading the text while trying to connect it with the image in the background.
I got the quote for my project from FlyFishingJoy.com. Charles Kuralt wrote the quote and I took the photograph. I thought that the image included some of the key points of the quote. I hope that the viewer will be able to understand the link between the text and the image.

Project One

I learned in this project that it is not just about what we read but how we read it. You must break down the art of reading and see all the different responses our body has. The combination of imagery with writing forces the body to break the page apart into image and word. When you can combine the two, you will have a greater impact on the body.

I wanted to achieve with this project a sense of movement with the text. I wanted the implied movement from the image to reflect the movement as the text appears. Imagine the text as a fly line in motion through the air. As you read each section that is a stage of casting the line. This continues until the line lands softly on the waters surface.

A big part of inspiration came from the Cummings poem; "r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r" my text is not reversed or jumbled it has movement, which may make the piece harder to follow. In Cummings's poem, the movement of the text seems to me like it could imply a leap from the grasshopper.

The kinesthetic involved in viewing my project is the use of inner sight and inner speech. The viewer will first see the image and start to imagine a dialogue that would accompany it. Then as the reader begins to read the text, the viewer will be trying to connect it with the image in the background.

I got the quote for my project from FlyFishingJoy.com. Charles Kuralt wrote the quote and I took the photograph. I thought that the image included some of the key points of the quote. I hope that the viewer will be able to understand the link between the text and the image.

My in class power point practice.

Project One Ideas

For my first project I have tossed around ideas about maybe doing a concrete poem or write a poem and have images that follow the poem. I think I am leaning more towards writing a poem and having related images compliment each line of the poem. This way the reader is following the poem not only through words but also images like a story board. I will use a poem that has alot of imagery in the writing. I have also thought about adding video in place of some of the images that will accompany the poem. Hopefully that will add a more interactive element to the project. The vibrant colors of the images should add depth to the piece and give emphasis to the writing. Using the right images will be just as important as the writing itself for it to be a successful piece.