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
Here is a sites with a bunch of examples and related materials:
https://ilit.altscholarship.com
And more poems
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. We will discuss aspects of poetry in class and work from a poetry packet. You can either select one of the poems in the packet or identify a poem on your own that you want to work with.
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 really 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 in-class and screen capturing activities, we will use a program called Camtasia. (I will help us get set up with the program.)
Camtasia will serve two functions: 1) it can provide the editing tools for composing the poem and 2) it will allow you to perform actions and capture materials on the screen to be used in the poems.
If Camtasia does not suit your needs or you want to experiment with other options, I recommend using Adobe Premier Rush, which you can download with a UNC Adobe Creative Cloud license.
Complete your poems and post a draft to the Web site using the Video Poem option by January 23rd.