Final Project Workshop 1 Reflection

As you read my lines of poetry in a Microsoft Word Doc the lines will be part of the Warped Image Text that engulfs the lines which are based on a variety of emotions, and life  dealing with Repressed Hurt, Anger, Love, Guidance, Overcoming, Strength, Determination, Resilience, Companionship and others that we all face or have to deal with at some point in our lives. I have attached and included  suitable videos that represent such feelings but in a creative way. Each song and performance allows me to find healing through the action of watching and writing before and finding a music video as these emotions are played out on the screen not by myself but musicians lyrics, video. I feel no longer alone in dealing with such emotions and have an outlet through the music video interaction , questioning, hearing, and reminiscing being able to filter these emotions in words and now in thought when my audience can actively click on embedded YouTube video hyperlink and be able to deal with a emotion or situation that they haven’t come to terms with or accepted, being and beginning the act of Healing and comfort through a combination of streaming, hypertext link technology when human interaction isn’t present to support them. This creates a active playlist and also word scape that coincides or reflects similar to the lyrics and my poetry.

I am kinda still contemplating how I will find the best way to create an interactive elit with the technologies I am aware of. I have many ideas, but execution will be the issue in choosing some of the suggestions I received in class during the workshop from Cindy using Twine, Wix or even my own ideas with Adobe After Effects, Microsoft Word and creating a Word Cloud. I feel it will require a combination or a commitment ot one program to make my elit functional for my reader. There still are decisive decisions to be made with creating a project that I am happy with and also serves its purpose as Electronic Literature similar to some of the examples I have interacted with in this class and in the 4 Elit Vol. collections we chose from. I would like my project to be a reflection of myself, some kind of blending between poetry, non-fiction/fiction incorporating music, video, sound as a sense of feelings and emotion. Workshop 2 will help I feel get more entuned with what I can do.