And likewise, Boostlit challenges the confines of the typical essay structure — aiming to engage audiences in distinctly new ways. 

This portfolio details my experience with the course's projects and progress, beginning with a sound list and culminating with multi-dimensional videos narrating poetry and Cormac McCarthy's The Road. Along the way, you will find process videos to depict the trials and triumphs of my introductions to Audacity and Camtasia.

Projects embrace the interplay between tempo, lyricism, classic literature, and silence — truly a project which embodies the class title, "Literature and Other Arts." 

1) Sound List

Storytelling without words might seem rather counterproductive. And to an English and Spanish Literature major with a penchant for wordiness, it did. But come see this text-less transformation in the selection of songs and audio I use to represent Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen. 

2) Audio Essay

Memory and auditory input is so closely related. You remember the sound of the door creaking in your grandparents house, the slight buzzing of the classroom in your favorite course, the sound of the potter's wheel wailing along with your newest creation. But audio and memory can also combine to create a public statement. Hear mine on victim blaming and the muffled memory recollections post traumatic experiences.

3) Live e-poem

"For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams/ Of the beautiful Annabel Lee" thanks to Edgar Allan Poe's poem of loss, love, and obsession. But the story takes on new meaning in this rendition of the poem via live e-poem. Combining classical castles and landscapes in Northern Ireland with a pitch black background, this representation of the poem takes on multidimensional elements of song, narration, and silence. 

4) Recorded e-poem

Taking a more active tone than Poe's writing, Dorothy Parker's The Flapper enchants and teases in this e-poem rendition. The piece includes historical video footage from the 1920s — featuring flappers dancing, smoking, and being consistently alluring to their male passersby. "Rough[ness]" of Parker's piece is complemented by the fluidity of natural processes and evolution as an opaque counterpart to the bustle of a party-driven life style.

5) Video on The Road 

The road is often depicted as long and arduous — but for characters in The Road by Cormac McCarthy, it is simultaneously so much more and less. The road brings desperation, brute survival and a gradual reversal of roles between father and son. But along this path of no return, memory and the ability for thoughts to fragment play crucial roles in paving the way for father and son. In this video representation of The Road's take on memory, experience the dark and at times, jarring, moments of blankness, of what once was and will never again be.

6) Reflection and "Walkthrough" Video

As a culminating piece for this portfolio, I filmed a reflection piece and explanatory video. In the footage, I discuss each of my projects for the class, as well as providing brief tutorials for Camtasia and Audacity — two programs heavily used in the course.