My Visual Poem

During the first few weeks of quarter two, my G.T. class worked on a Visual Poem project. My visual poem was about emotion and was titled "Bittersweet Irony." It basically describes emotions using metaphors. The visuals describe all the metaphoric emotions I use.

The effects I used were mostly soft and unnoticeable. For one part of my poem there's two lines that say "Light does not always equate good," and "Darkness does not always equate evil," so I made the clips dark or light corresponding to what that line said to get a better understanding of the statement. I used all cross-dissolve transitions so they would go pretty much unnoticed and so the mood would be set neutral.

I am semi-satisfied with result of my visual poem. I didn't realize that we had to have special effects, text, and music throughout the whole video until the due date and I already had some editing to do. I would improve it by adding less upbeat music because the poem is supposed to have a neutral feeling. I would also add more effects that apply to the poem. I couldn't find a way to add effects and discoloration, etc, to make it seem relevant.