For this project, students will work with type and motion to visualize poetry. The themes of the poems will focus primarily on a message of social justice. The job of the designer is to synthesize and interpret the message of each poem through visual treatment and kinetic behavior
Chosen poem:
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Cinemagraph: Here we were to use cinemagraph techniques learned in class to capture the essence of our poem.
Poster: We then created a poster that captured the essence of the poem as a still piece while keeping it dynamic.
Animation Storyboard
Final Animation
