This week I started the process of my project. I started doing it on Photoshop because I am more familiar with the program and I wanted to do a glitch effect at the onset of the video, but realized that I would have to animate everything individually frame-by-frame in Photoshop, which is fine but I am going to try and see if I can transfer what I have so far to After Effects or Animate so I can have an easier time animating the piece. So far I think the aesthetic I'm going for is a plain black background with white lettering, but including a glitch effect so it looks like it is being shown on one of those old boxy TVs for nostalgia factor to go with the theme of the poem itself. The poem is styled like a eulogy. For particular words, especially ones that conjure up some sort of imagery, I want to mimic the movement or the shape of that imagery through animation to give emphasis to them and make the poem seem more animate and alive.
The image taken from Internet Poetry I think encapsulates Schifani's discussion of "shallowness" in electronic literature, and how electronic literature, though it is flat, can really have a depth to it depending on the intent of the artist. I think this image gets across the message that, even though seemingly "shallow" media (like cat videos that Schifani mentions) circulates the internet, technology actually has the potential to bolster our creativity as long as we build upon digital art, as long as we "DO NOT LET THE FIRE DIE." The image taken from Ana Uribe's website is one of her poems entitled " It's Raining ." Similarly, I think it connects to Schifani's idea of "flatness." Even though the poem itself seems flat and simple, it is actually quite experiential if read aloud. Uribe repeats the word "gota" ("raindrop" in English) throughout the poem, slowly squishing the letters closer
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