1. Familiarize yourself with tutorials for Adobe Animate (software is available on The Hub and cluster computers, also via remote access. Adobe's student price is $19.99/mo). You can also find some video tutorials like this or this one. Give yourself an hour to learn the software.
2. Create a 30 second animated text-image ‘poem’ using Adobe Animate. Output it as video and upload to YouTube or Vimeo. Take a note of the link to the video.
- Your text material should consist of 3 words, 3 word expressions or 3 lines of text.
- Your image should also utilize 3 elements. Select from animated gestures of text, animated graphics and/or imported pictures.
- Use the principle of metaphor to bind image and text together. Consider using image as picture, symbol and/or sign.
3. Create a "Project 1" page in Mobirise that contains a streaming video block with a link to the video. Publish as an html page and upload it to the Music32N folder (remember to include the Assets folder).
4. Create a separate page and write 2 paragraphs (200 words) summarizing
your original idea/subject, the metaphors that you came up with, why you chose some
metaphors not others and the process how you developed the final form.
5. Create links on your Music32N page to your "Project 1" and to the "Project 1 – Process" pages.
6. Please enjoy the
reading that may help you conceive the animated poem.
Optional instructions how to develop and produce the poem:
1. Decide on the subject of your poem. Almost anything will do as a starting point. Picture it
clearly in your head.
2. What are the associations that come into your mind? Write a list of similes to describe your
subject (using "like" or "as."), something very specific. Write down as many similes as you can
think of. Many won't be used in the final poem. Which elements are better expressed through
text and which through image? What are the opposite or contrasting qualities? Would they
serve better to put the idea in a poetic perspective?
3. Metaphors simply state it as if it were fact that A is B. Would it be possible to express one side
of the metaphor as word and the other as image? Select the similes or “non-similes” that could
work that way. Which elements are better expressed through text and which through image?
4. Decide on the structure of your ‘poem’. Choose your elements and on a sheet of paper
organize them into a 30 second timeline/score with two layers – one for image one for text.
5. Be playful – there is nothing wrong with enjoying your assignments. Have fun with words and
images!