The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Comments
Some of the videos you chose…
Some of the videos you chose, made the poem feel real because the perspective from which they were filmed made it feel like it was me making the decision and walking. All of the nature sights helped with that visual as well. Since this is a longer poem, the amount of words and the time they were up for was a bit overwhelming.
Peer Review
I think the videos you used perfectly fits the imagery Robert Frost intended. The consistency of nature imagery matched to mood and meaning of the poem. The background music was also a key feature helping me to be immersed with the video. Only thing I could say about this video is the typography, because the poem itself is very long, the texts seemed to be overwhelming. I really liked it when you switched it up with "grassy", and it would be nice if you incorporate those changes throughout the poem.
The mix of visual imagery…
The mix of visual imagery and the music creates a nice mood for the piece. I like the move around 24 secs where you deliver the text in a more dynamic way. Since you will be reworking text in general, I feel like pushing on this strategy of breaking things up and delivering them with different pacing will help make the piece dynamic as well. If there are a few other spots where the longer blocks of text can be broken up and the pacing experimented with, then they can be used to highlight key aspects of the poem. In general, I feel like the pacing ,ay be a tad too quick, so just giving things a bit more time to breathe will be good. You'll also want to verify all the spelling and accuracy with the text. There are some extra bits of music to be trimmed and overall technical polish to smooth transitions, but the mood and materials are working well, so the added work with the text will make it even stronger. As a challenge, you might think about whether and how, you could bring juxtaposition into the imagery to do more to differentiate the two paths discussed in the poem. It might be that you would walk away from something like that, but city imagery or something else that created a kind of counter story might be one way of experimenting with different approaches. Nice work.
Peer Review
I really liked the music in the background of your video. I thought it went really well with the message you helped create with the imagery. In regards to the imagery, I also found it to be fitting for the poem as it created a high-quality reinforcing idea about the poem's meaning. The different uses of title styles really keeps the viewer's attention and makes things interesting. The only suggestion I can think of is to leave the words on the screen a bit longer, but given the length of the poem I can see why they'd need to be short. Overall, I thought it was very well done.