For my Remix project I am taking audio readings of the poem "Good Hours" by Robert Frost from the Internet Archive. There are about 41 audio readings all done by different people and all in the public domain.
I plan on mixing the voices so that each line of the poem will be read by a different voice. Once I have reassembled the audio poem I plan on putting short video clips and pictures to it to make a video version of the poem. I also may have a friend create an original acoustic guitar score to play in the background, but that is only if I believe it will help the overall meaning and if time is permitting.
I am not sure exactly what I hope the theme of the final project will be, but I have found myself very interested in the rhyme scheme and possible meanings of changing it.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Monday, February 4, 2008
My experience with the Electronic Literature Collection
I was a bit confused and intimidated when I first got to the ELC. Each picture in the 8x8 grid does not give any obvious hints as to what the literature behind it will feature. I assumed that the electronic literature would be similar to hypertexts such as "Firefly" and "Hegirascope", but I was unsure of what else to expect from it. After moving my cursor around the grid at random for a little bit and reading the titles, I picked Inanimate Alice: Episode 1. I chose this story because the image reminded me a bit of Doug Funny, and the title made me curious.
After experiencing ("reading" just doesn't seem like the right word) the story I was very impressed with the effect it had on me. The story was written well, and the interactive aspects added to the experience I felt. The music, sounds, pictures, and video clips, all work well with the story and help to further express the anxious feeling that the character is facing. I especially liked the inclusion of the "ba-xi", which is similar to a mobile blackberry that Alice plays with. When the ba-xi came into the screen things like the typing text and clicking on the pictures really made me feel like I was on the trip looking for Alice's dad as well.
This piece of literature was interactive fiction, and it is very comprable to other hypertext works. I would say that the focus is more intended to be on the interactive parts of the expreince than on the literature. At times there is no text at all on the page and the user is left just to watch the image of a road flying by or move the cursor over some pictures.
Overall I would say that all the media works very well together to express a very anxious mood and bring the user into the role of an active person in the story instead of a passive reader.
After experiencing ("reading" just doesn't seem like the right word) the story I was very impressed with the effect it had on me. The story was written well, and the interactive aspects added to the experience I felt. The music, sounds, pictures, and video clips, all work well with the story and help to further express the anxious feeling that the character is facing. I especially liked the inclusion of the "ba-xi", which is similar to a mobile blackberry that Alice plays with. When the ba-xi came into the screen things like the typing text and clicking on the pictures really made me feel like I was on the trip looking for Alice's dad as well.
This piece of literature was interactive fiction, and it is very comprable to other hypertext works. I would say that the focus is more intended to be on the interactive parts of the expreince than on the literature. At times there is no text at all on the page and the user is left just to watch the image of a road flying by or move the cursor over some pictures.
Overall I would say that all the media works very well together to express a very anxious mood and bring the user into the role of an active person in the story instead of a passive reader.
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