POETRY VIDEO: HOME STUDY COURSE
Publisher: The Vanity of Human Wishes Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: available:  www.oldfamilymovies.com
Description: www.oldfamilymovies.com

The first course of its kind to combine lyric poetry with digital new media.   Poems are read to accompany a digital movie, often centering on a short, personal visual memory.  Course contains lessons and exercises on writing poetry, recording audio, and structuring video.  Go to:  www.oldfamilymovies.com for details.

COURSE CONTENTS:

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DESCRIPTION                                                                                                                                       

PURPOSE

Old Family Movies as INSTRUCTIONAL EXAMPLE

VIDEO EDITING EXPERIENCE   

THE SHORT LIST   10 QUICK STEPS for POETRY VIDEO

THE LONG LIST     DETAILED STEPS for POETRY VIDEO


                           POETRY /  STORYTELLING:  

Lesson One

Prewriting    Definition    Poetry
Subject Selection                                                 
Subject Selection Worksheet
Exercises
Lesson Plan

Lesson Two

Length  Page Architecture                 
Page Architecture Worksheet
Exercises
Lesson Plan

Lesson Three

Dramatizing the Subject
Dramatizing Worksheet
Exercises
Lesson Plan

Lesson Four

Speaker  /  Narrator
Speaker Worksheet-Motivation
Exercises
Lesson Plan

Lesson Five

Who  What  When  Where  Why 
Backstory Narrative
Narrative Worksheet
Exercises
Lesson Plan

Lesson Six

The Writing Process    Getting Started
Writing Suggestions
Exercise for Writing a "poem"
Lesson Plan
Audience

                          AUDIO

Lesson Seven

Recording  microphone placement   performance
rerecording   music   microphones


                          VIDEO

Lesson Eight

Storyboard  video time lines   animating the photo
visual effects  third-party sources  transitions
lighting  talking head   text titles   gigabytes
chapter markers   back up

TWO POEM-VIDEOS  CASE HISTORY  from TEXT to TIMELINE

1  My Mother’s Kindergarten Classroom

Poem, problems finding images  image placement,
image sequence in clip viewer   video and
audio tracks  annotated text as storyboard

2   Minnie Minoso    Chicago White Sox       

Poem    problems with cost of licensing images
of subject    generic substitutions    image
sequence in  clip viewer   video and audio tracks
in timeline viewer    closing image
annotated text as storyboard

RESOURCES

Sample Syllabus  for Creative Writing Poetry Video   

Hardware  Video Editing Tutorials   Manuals            

BONUSES:

OLD FAMILY MOVIES   Book and DVD
CHICAGO POEMS DVD
Quick Start How To Guide