Unit 3 Project: Poetry Adaptation Video

Use a video editor to create an interpretation and analysis of a poem. This assignment will differ from a typical poetry analysis activity in that the final results of your work will be delivered not as an academic essay but as a remixed, video version of the poem you are studying. 

To get a sense of these possibilities, you can check out some samples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmUHzz4JLpc

https://vimeo.com/208608002

https://vimeo.com/210293726

Here is a site with a bunch of examples and related materials:

https://ilit.altscholarship.com

Once you have a sense of the kind of project you will create, you will need to do preliminary work with the poem you want to interpret. You will need to first identify a poem on your own that you want to work with. As you identify a poem, be sure to conduct research using the library to find a poem that has had some scholarship written about it. 

As you create your poem, I encourage you to use the screen as a canvas to create a multimedia performance. The motion of the words, the way they are delivered with pacing, their look and feel--all of these combine to bring the text of the poem to life. In addition, you will want to integrate music and videos or still images.

Seek to deploy aspects of your video editor that allow you to create a dynamic mix of words, sounds, and images for your poem, using animations, opacity, movement, sound, etc. to develop a piece of electronic art. Pay particular attention to the concerns of sound and of the viewer's attention.

For composing, you can use a video editor of your choice, but for our tasks and assignments we will use Adobe Premier Rush, which you can download with a UNC Adobe Creative Cloud license.

I will provide guidance for composing and submitting the projects.

Submit a draft of your video adaptation using our Unit 3 Project Draft submission option. The draft is due by 9:45AM on Tuesday, July 21st.