My Diary: Video Project Idea
My Diary
Concept: A visual story that follows my poetry throughout the years.
Genre: Nonfiction
Theme/Concept: My plan for this project is to create a video highlighting my progress in writing over the past six years. From performing at my high school's Word Up! Poetry slams and showcases, to spending Thursdays at The Dopeness (renamed The Citizen) bar and restaurant for their open mic nights, or going to my first Louder Than a Bomb (LTAB) poetry competition at Rutgers-Camden; it was always fun and exhilarating to hear and see people's reactions to my own organic work.
I began writing poetry in the seventh grade, and have kept a series of journals and Word docs with all of my drafts and finalized text ever since.
Synopsis/Freewrite: My writing is a form of self-expression that helped me articulate my opinions, thoughts, and emotions on a broader scale. It gave me a voice and breathed life into all of my ideas by converting them from thought to paper, and eventually became spoken-word pieces.
Scenes:
Scene 1: The screen is blank, all that is heard is my voiceover of me saying my poem "Life."
Scene 2: Screen slowly starts to project the image of a time lapse of a sunset, eye dilating, lens if a camera zooming in (anything that symbolizes life).
Scene 3: I start to stumble over my words, with the images on the screen abruptly stopping as I do.
Scene 4: I try to revise what I'm saying twice, and the time lapse continues and then rewinds every time I repeat the same phrase.
Scene 5: Eventually, I stop speaking altogether. I continue again and say, "Okay, time to add on."
Scene 6: The screen fades into the image of my notebook surrounding by multiple markers and pencils on top of a white desk.
Scene 7: I start to write with the animation of typewriting text appearing on the screen.
Scene 8: Describe what inspired me to write about this topic, along with drawings and text that accompany/match my words.
Scene 9: Start flipping through the pages with a fast-forward effect - stopping on specific pages that display the name of one of my favorite poems along with the date it was written.
Scene 10: Flip the page over to my favorite stanza of that poem, and talk about what inspired me to write it. (The typewriter text appears on the screen to highlight specific words that I'm saying).
Target Audience: Anyone that is interested in writing. I feel this is a topic that is relatable to anyone that has spent a substantial amount of experience with creating their own writing process. From the beginning where I'm animating the ideas inside of my head by giving them visual representation, to the parts where I decide to cut and rewind to hint at the self-editing process any writer needs to go through to be confident in their work. I believe the areas of real connection with the audience are in incorporating the titles of my poem and the dates that they were written because I feel like the majority of people that keep journals write the date at the top of the page for every entry.
Setting: I am going to record everything over the desk in my room.
Although I do not want to use the same color scheme, I like the way that she kept the focus primarily on her notebook, and the video effects are great.
Ideas for the time-lapse I'm going to edit into the beginning.
The beginning of this video shows how I would combine the animated text with each scene.
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Concept: A visual story that follows my poetry throughout the years.
Genre: Nonfiction
Theme/Concept: My plan for this project is to create a video highlighting my progress in writing over the past six years. From performing at my high school's Word Up! Poetry slams and showcases, to spending Thursdays at The Dopeness (renamed The Citizen) bar and restaurant for their open mic nights, or going to my first Louder Than a Bomb (LTAB) poetry competition at Rutgers-Camden; it was always fun and exhilarating to hear and see people's reactions to my own organic work.
I began writing poetry in the seventh grade, and have kept a series of journals and Word docs with all of my drafts and finalized text ever since.
Synopsis/Freewrite: My writing is a form of self-expression that helped me articulate my opinions, thoughts, and emotions on a broader scale. It gave me a voice and breathed life into all of my ideas by converting them from thought to paper, and eventually became spoken-word pieces.
Scenes:
Scene 1: The screen is blank, all that is heard is my voiceover of me saying my poem "Life."
Scene 2: Screen slowly starts to project the image of a time lapse of a sunset, eye dilating, lens if a camera zooming in (anything that symbolizes life).
Scene 3: I start to stumble over my words, with the images on the screen abruptly stopping as I do.
Scene 4: I try to revise what I'm saying twice, and the time lapse continues and then rewinds every time I repeat the same phrase.
Scene 5: Eventually, I stop speaking altogether. I continue again and say, "Okay, time to add on."
Scene 6: The screen fades into the image of my notebook surrounding by multiple markers and pencils on top of a white desk.
Scene 7: I start to write with the animation of typewriting text appearing on the screen.
Scene 8: Describe what inspired me to write about this topic, along with drawings and text that accompany/match my words.
Scene 9: Start flipping through the pages with a fast-forward effect - stopping on specific pages that display the name of one of my favorite poems along with the date it was written.
Scene 10: Flip the page over to my favorite stanza of that poem, and talk about what inspired me to write it. (The typewriter text appears on the screen to highlight specific words that I'm saying).
Target Audience: Anyone that is interested in writing. I feel this is a topic that is relatable to anyone that has spent a substantial amount of experience with creating their own writing process. From the beginning where I'm animating the ideas inside of my head by giving them visual representation, to the parts where I decide to cut and rewind to hint at the self-editing process any writer needs to go through to be confident in their work. I believe the areas of real connection with the audience are in incorporating the titles of my poem and the dates that they were written because I feel like the majority of people that keep journals write the date at the top of the page for every entry.
Setting: I am going to record everything over the desk in my room.
Although I do not want to use the same color scheme, I like the way that she kept the focus primarily on her notebook, and the video effects are great.
Ideas for the time-lapse I'm going to edit into the beginning.
The beginning of this video shows how I would combine the animated text with each scene.
Hi Cynthia,
ReplyDeleteThis is super interesting, and based on the topic, I really look forward to watching your video, You put a lot of thought in your scene progression, and I think it could come out very artistic and eye-catching if you go through with some of these ideas. I've always loved to write, and I think you have the capability with your ideas to really inspire people to hone their love for writing like you have. :)
dear Cynthia,
ReplyDeleteof all of the students, you spent the most time really thinking about how to visually represent your story, which puts you way ahead of the game in terms of technique. As someone who loves thinking and writing about the creative process, this idea is very appealing. one thing to keep in mind is that this is essentially a video essay project, so you will want to spend some time writing about why poetry or spoken word appeals to you as a form of art or communication. we will have at least one future blog assignment that will ask you to spend some time answering questions about the project, so in the meantime, see if you can spend some time thinking about what drew you to poetry in the first place. Do you remember the first poem you wrote? What kind of feedback did you get? What made you write your second poem? What made you take the leap from words on a page to getting on stage? Do you have any video footage of your poetry readings that you could share? What's the difference for you between writing the poem and then speaking it out loud to others? What kind of energy is in the room? how does it feel to perform? there are many different ways you can explore this idea, so get as much down on the page as you can and then you can start to strip away from there. nice work.