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Edited E-Poem
Soul Stones by Tatyana Carney (Again)
For this project, we were allowed to either use an old poem or to make a new one. I liked Soul Stones enough that I wanted to use it again, and I already had some changes in mind.
In my first version (previous page on this path), I ran out of time before the deadline, and was kind of stuck for what content I could add. Camtasia kept on crashing while I was working on the poem so eventually I turned it in and called it a day.
For the second version, I decided that I needed more content. To do this, I wanted to get a bit more abstract. Originally, I had more literal representations of the poem, but some of the other videos that I added, like the gong and the rock stacks, are less so and are more abstract. I also had the problem that some of my videos were much longer than others and that some of them played with almost no other content, and that posed a problem for viewer attention. I realized that an important aspect of making these types of productions is the attention span of the viewer, and having something be constant with nothing else around it gets boring pretty quickly. The extra content helped to fill that space. The video has a black background, and I wasn't sure if I wanted to keep it that way or put in a background picture. It ended up that with my style of video, it was better to have the black background because of how my text and videos were put in place, and it added to the emotions that the poem developed.
This is my second version, which I then edited later for the portfolio:
Since the edits for the final version happened after all the projects were completed, I had learned some other techniques on Camtasia, the program we used to make the videos. In my The Road video, I used callouts for my text, but for my e-poems I had used Mac Notes and edited it to the frame that I wanted.
As you can see, the Mac Notes are very angular and seem a bit harsh. The Camtasia callouts can be edited to be different styles, but I decided to stay with the original Mac Notes for this particular video because for me it fit with the idea of a cold and harsh place.
I also had to look at my use of content in regards to having too much at one time. However, I condensed the areas where a lot was going on on the screen to places where I thought they poem would build a sort of pressure inside the reader. I also reordered a lot of things to switch up what was happening on the screen. Things now move, whereas most things were static in the first two versions. I also switched up the style of video and text organization a bit to make that more interesting as well. This time around, I have more places where there is one video that takes up the full screen rather than a few smaller clips on the screen. Another problem that I had was that the larger text chunks were a bit slow and dry, so I increased the clip speed so that those areas would flow better.
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