By Friday, please upload your poetry video to you tube and then leave a comment here including the following.1. The URL (web address) of your youtube video.
2. One paragraph (5-10 sentences) describing your video. What choices did you make to communicate the ideas, language, style, feeling, etc. of your poem? Why did you make the choices you made?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsL-5AVRkNw&feature=channel
ReplyDeleteI chose the poem “First Love” by John Clare. So this poem is basically about a boy meeting a girl, like love at first sight kind of, he is saying that she is good looking, and that when he saw her everything seemed to stop. I chose this poem because I didn’t want to choose a short one, because this way my video would be probably about half a minute long, so I chose a longer one(lol, now it’s 1 minute long), also when I was choosing between the two I liked, I saw that no one so far chose “First Love”, so I chose this one. I thought that the poem would look a bit lesbian since a girl voice is narrating it, but I think it is ok. My main idea was to learn how to include the videos, I used two movies for my video, “Lovely bones” because it has got such amazing graphics which I added in my video which made it look very creative and original, and the second movie is the Russian movie “Мы из будущего” and I chose it because I had it on my computer and the girl from the movie seemed good looking. So I think I accomplished this idea. I also used some pictures that go well with the poem, like bed of snow, I wasn’t sure whether it had to do with flower or bed, so I put both of them in the video. I also used music in order to start and finish the video, I could narrate with the music but this way my voice would not be heard, because I have a mad microphone and the one at school was not available. In general I’m sure that I did a good job on this video, it took me like 7 hours to do it, but I think it is worth it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Ydm1kQLWQ
ReplyDeleteI chose the poem "Lament" by Gillian Clarke. It doesn't have an exact story to it. But describes the main sad parts of the world. It contains many descriptions of wildlife and aquatic animals like turtles, dugongs, dolphins, birds etc. It has very powerful imagery in its words so i thought thats possibly a good reason to make a video out of it. The choices i made for the feeling of the poem was to have a kind of sad, depressive music, but very heartfelt as well. Also to have a soft, moderately fast voice with some drama in the voice time to time. I also tried to find some pictures the describe each image. It was difficult at times but i took pictures that were both very beautiful and fascinating but also represented its line in the poem. I made these choices to show the poems message. Which is really lament, the sadness of the world. To give a very depressing, but clearly instant message to the viewer. I hope all of my choices showed the true meaning of this poem and the extreme sorrow and gloom of it.
Dover Beach- Valentina Spiteri
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I communicated my ideas in the poetry video by using images of the sea which were not completely fitting with the story of Dover Beach however the sea was a reoccurring image throughout the poem. The language of the poem was very expressive and passionate, I tried to show this by accompanying the words of the poem with a strong and dignified voice, but at the same time with calm accents with in it. The style of the poem was surrounded by greek gods and expressive imagery, I also tried to show this by experimenting with my voice and using astounding images of the sea. The feeling of the poem could be seen predominately throughout the video, the feeling was a sorrowful, dull and calm feeling which was expressed in the timing of the images and the sound of my voice. I chose the images because they fit in with feeling and style but also because they were not images of dover beach but the poem is not as much about Dover Beach but a lot about morning and sorrow, I felt that different seas would represent human's emotions but not just at dover beach but all over the world. As all humans experience emotions for better or for worse and we often identify these emotions with a certain time or place like Matthew Arnold did with Dover Beach. So imagine that the images of the seas were images which other people have associated with a certain emotion, that is what I tried to subtly include in my video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEoE9_wHpgw
ReplyDeleteI chose On the Grasshopper and the Cricket by John Keats. I think I will make it slow in the beginning, but faster as it starts to talk about fun and summer. If I can find appropriate music, I might add some but I don’t think I’ll add some if I cannot. Hopefully I can get a relaxed, winterry feeling and a fun, warm summery part. Maybe, If I can find a frost effect, that melts then it would look better.
Unfortunately, I realized how difficult it would be to do those things so I made my video much simpler.
Well Here You Are Sir,
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I chose Flower-fed Buffaloes as i thought it was an interesting theme of how the once great buffaloes have left the hills because of all the tribes hunting them down and using them as a source of food and materials, i also chose it because i found it to be peaceful since it was placed in the spring time.
I spent a long time on this trying to get every thing in working order, but i took each line and i thought about it very carefully on how i would go about it, so i took a look at Spring time and worked from their. Although finding the right pictures for the buffaloes and the tribes was not as easy as i expected but everything 'meshed' together perfectly.
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ReplyDeleteI have chosen the poem Report To Wordsworth. I used many nature pictures - flowers, trees, leaves, forests... But then I also put some pictures of waste and smoke into the video. Then there are those pictures that show the gods - Neptune, Proteus and Triton. To search for the pictures was easy and didn't take too much time.
Then i did the narrations. This was difficult because i had to do them over and over again because i didnt read the lines the right way or read too fast or someone in the background said something.And even now im still not happy with my narrations because they are too quite.
I put some sad music at the beginning and at the end of the video. I wanted to put the music while i was talking, but i didnt manage. The music is from "Eisblume" (german song).
To put the pictures togerthe with the narrations was hard work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovtC1yoIrJU
ReplyDeleteBtw the video pics look a lot better if u watch it in HD
I chose On the Grasshopper and Cricket By John Keats as it has a good story and turn. I tried to keep the video simple as the story is relaxed. I also tried to include both video and photos for a more interesting video.
The only issue I had was that I couldn't put a backing audio behind my narration on imovie.
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ReplyDeleteI chose Report To Wordsworth by Boey Kim Cheng. Since i find the feel of the poem very.. depressing, I made sure to add pictures that were dark and sad. But, since there is also the theme of pollution, i added some pictures of environmental problems. The music also makes the video seem very sad. Although i have now idea why my voice turned out that way >.>
--Tatiana T.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuBPLYpRV64
ReplyDeleteI chose the poem 'Amends' as it seemed interesting to me, mentioning something moving throughout everything, and finally at the end, it
"dwells upon the eyelids of the sleepers, as if to make amends." I also chose this poem as it seemed quite a mysterious poem to me.
In my video, I preferred to go for the slide show idea, and i used quite a few pictures, and they change frequently, so as to match the lines. Most of my pictures show night and darkness, incorporating moonlight or the moon, until the end, where it is revealed to make amends, and so i put a picture of the sun rising, showing the end of the night and darkness, as the amends are being made.
My Video-->http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16YXXTcJu08
ReplyDeleteI chose "Report to Wordsworth" by Boey Kim Cheng because it’s beautiful and emotional sonnet. I put a lot of pictures of Nature in it like trees, flowers, sky, meadows...because it’s the main theme of this sonnet. Also I added the video to make it more realistic and by giving more movements to make it more interesting. I showed sadness of this sonnet by my voice when I did narration and by polluted Nature like on the line "smothered by the smoke" I put video with the factory which giving out a lot of smoke. The hardest part in my video was the music I just couldn’t find the right one but eventually I found and it was from "Titanic". That music was perfect because it didn’t have words, it was sad and calm which was good because it was style of the sonnet. However, I didn’t put music on the narration because I think you can hear me telling the sonnet better without the music. I spend a lot of time on this video and I hope you all will like it.
Polina
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ReplyDeleteSo i managed to upload my movie and THIS IS IT!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bA4LD8edyU
the sound is REALLLY Bad but that was the problem so i cant change that sorry! This means i have no music, but my voice...
So i chose "Time" by Allen Curnow because it is a very different poem, it deals with life and death, happiness and sadness, and all the opposits. It also deals with time and in a way the poem shows you that. It talks about alllll the things in life and then shows the reader that time is everything. It is not very emotional, but it shows that time is everything and it shows also that time can be beautiful or horrible, sadness or happiness, tears or laughter, and everything else. It is an interesting poem and i hope you liike it... exept the voice!!
I chose the poem "Full moon and Little Frieda" By Ted Hughes. I am going to sound big headed but I am quite proud of my video. It has sound effects and pictures and I spent quite a bit of time on it. My video has a sort of scary aura I would say. The poem itself is quite a eery poem. My video deals with haunted cows and rivers of blood. Enjoy .
ReplyDeleteSorry it was late but I had a bit of issue with my cahrger but if you ask caroline she can say I had it done ! Honest :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHJX0fi6P-A
ReplyDeletecomment got deleted and its 3 in the morning so i aint typing it again good night
dylans link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVC1YorwuCA
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ReplyDeleteWhen i first read the poem, i got the impression of the poem being a spirit, or an object, moving around the seashore and the land, and then going into the cabins where the sleepers sleep, and it going into their eyes. I got the idea that the spirit is an object that wants to be with the humans. I tried to make the poem go along with the pictures, so that the watchers could interpret the idea of the poem.
ReplyDeleteI also added the sound to it, because that particular song gives a sence of freedom. I enjoyed making this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHJX0fi6P-A
ReplyDeletei get the idea that this poem is ABOUT BUFFALOES. I chose pictures that were related to every sentence so it would appeal more to the viewer also because i used odd pictures.
At the end i used some music to finish it off... it wasn't really related but i think it was nice. I wasn't sure if i could have slowed it down abit but then again if it was to slow it would be to boring.
making this video was rather entertaining.
by mike.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qfo09iOSJk
ReplyDeleteWhen I was deciding on how my video was going to look like, I was thinking of colours relating to nature. The type of pictures I chose were relating more to happiness/joy than sadness.
I made the choices I made because the sonnet I was working on did not show any sadness in it, so I tried using more cheerful pictures in the poetry video.
By Kalean 9A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0LSG6iicwo
ReplyDeleteI did my poetry video on Report to Wordsworth because i think that us humans need to do something against Global Warming. This poem is about how we are destroying our planet. With the aid of poetry i would like to addrress the people so that they are aware of what we are doing.
I used nature and animals as symbols.
The pictures i used were all from google and everything was from me.
I narrated it myself but the music in the backround was from Madame Butterfly the opera. I wanted to use sad and depressing music because it is so sad and so horrifying what we are doing to our planet.
Kimberly Merten