https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oUDV2t92g1wWEEsNWH-5bmEJTKJiRAr5/view?usp=sharing
This process started off difficult for me because I usually am not good with technology but once I started really working on it I knew what I had to do and everything became more organized and came together. At first I had absolutely no idea what my vision was for this poem, then after reading it a few more times as well as getting feedback from my peers the ideas started to flow in. My family means the world to me and I just knew that I wanted them to be apart of this. After re-reading the poem multiple times it became clear which family members I wanted to read each of the different parts. As for the media, the story board really helped me come up with different ideas for that and it made it a lot easier to get all of my ideas down on paper. I changed the background music a lot when I was working on this project. Nothing seemed to fit and flow the way I envisioned it, so I kept searching and I finally found a song that I liked. Then I had some trouble with some of the videos I uploaded. Every time I would upload a video that I had previously recorded off of Snapchat, they would stretch vertically and look so weird so I had to record new videos which I ended up liking a lot better. At first I really did not like doing this. I am not good with technology, but then once I started doing it, it made me appreciate and really look to see what the poem is saying. I felt that this project really made me engage with the poem more than I would have by just reading it. I feel fairly confident in my project. It is in no way perfect and it is pretty amateur but I know that I did my best and I am really proud of what I accomplished when I didn't think I would be able to do much of anything with this project. This project in a way made me see that technology (even in literature) can be a really useful tool in the classroom and I am glad that I have been given so many tools to use in my future classroom!
I appreciate your honest assessment of your abilities and your preferences about technology. It sounds like this project stretched you, maybe just the right amount. You had to film things over (darn Snapchat anyway), but you were able to connect with your family and include/incorporate them into this piece in a way that was meaningful to you and to the interpretation of the poem. That's so cool. I hope you shared it with them when it was finished. I'd love to see you give some details here in terms of how it helped you appreciate the poem and see what it was saying. What did it end up saying to you, and how were you able to convey it visually or with the music?
ReplyDeleteI like that you are so honest about your visual poetry video to not be perfect, because mine was not either, and it is fine to admit that. I like that you said you changed your music multiple times because I did as well but I think that singing for me rather than playing music over the video was best. I think you did a great job and I liked your own footage you brought in!
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