Ernesto Guevara (1928 – 1967)
Ernesto “Che” Guevara was the most awesome person ever to have lived. He was described by Sartre as “the most complete human being of our time”. Yes, he killed tons of people but he was by no means evil. He wasn’t disturbed, delusional or paranoid either, he just believed truly in something, a man with a pure mind and soul, a true ideologist who believed more in the revolution than in his own immortality. Chuck Norris was born after he died, otherwise Che would have chopped him up into little pieces and fed them to the pigs. He was also extremely charismatic and is still a national symbol today in Latin America.

Multimedia Poetry - Ghazzah

Evaluation

Multimedia Poetry Evaluation

I learned some more about how to use Windows Movie Maker. I am quite good now in using Movie Maker and I also know how to solve some problems I encountered which are internal faults in the program. I also figured out how to solve some problems with the format, animation and colors. It took me a while to realize that I can blur the background picture in order to make the text more legible. I could have used the color red but I didn’t think it would go with the color scheme.
I am quite satisfied with my plan, design and final product. My plan was very detailed, and although I didn’t follow everything exactly as intended, overall I still got most of it done on time as expected. I also followed most of my design specification, but throughout the creation of the video I realized some things that I hadn’t considered before, and changed some things accordingly.
I am very satisfied with my final product. I got many positive comments from parents and teachers, and also one or two students. I was the only student who chose a serious political subject, and I am very content with the result.
One of the challenges in this project was the decision at the beginning. I thought that I would not use the poem I had at first intended to, because I thought that the regular rhyme scheme would look very strange but it wasn’t as bad as I had expected when I decided to use the poem anyway. Some other problems were mainly a lot of minor ones that I encountered with Windows Movie Maker, a program that has many faults, such as not letting the music correspond with the video, and so on.
The least challenging was finding the pictures, and setting up the video. It was fun to do, and I had everything in mind of what it would look like. I knew what kind of pictures I would use and could imagine the video in the end.
I didn’t us my time in class as efficiently as I could have, I also did all of the video at home.
I would give myself a good grade for the design, but since I chose a completely different subject than my peers it is very difficult for me to compare.
I would have changed some more minor things, but I didn’t because in the end I didn’t have the time or the patience. Also, it was very difficult for me to find music so I settle with what I had. In my mind, I had the perfect soundtrack to the video but I couldn’t find anything like that anywhere. I was worried that my soundtrack wouldn’t go well with the movie, or change some things about it.
I think next time I will try to find another program besides movie maker to make my video on, as it has too many faults.
This was my favorite project this year, and I think it was very interesting and fun to do. It was an interdisciplinary unit and quite educational. I don’t think anything should be changed in this project.

Design

Design
 Poem approved by Mrs. V
 Time Frame (1-3 min)
 High Resolution images
 Text & Fonts
 Sound (without lyrics)
 Effects/Transitions
 Credits

Design Specification
Step 1: I need to write a poem approved by Mrs. V
• Should have at least 2 verses, with 4 stanzas each (minimum)
• Preferably more than that
• No regular rhyme scheme
• The stanzas should have a lot of syllables, such as Iambic pentameter perhaps (which has 10 syllables, it should not have too few because it wouldn’t look good on the video)
• The pictures in the background will have a high resolution and attractiveness, but should not catch too much attention
• The video needs to be 1-3 minutes long, and I will try to fit it into this time span
I am going to create an example Multimedia Poetry. It will contain some high resolution pictures that are based on my subject. I want most of my pictures to have a similar color and style, and it should go well with my poem. I will try to use pictures that are meaningful but do not distract from the actual text.
My poem is quite serious, so I will use a font that goes well with my poem, and the title will be zooming in and not too silly or distracting. I will use:
• Monotype Corsiva font
• Black and White
• Large fonts
• Fade in, and Slow zoom in animation
• Slides should fade in an out slowly
I need to make sure that the slides stay long enough to be able to read, and that the text itself is legible so that it doesn’t have the same color as the background
I know that red is a color that always shows on pictures, that’s why a lot of people use red but I think it does not go well with the color scheme f my video so I will make the picture in the background blur in some cases where neither black nor white is legible.

Step 1: Both of my poems were approved by Mrs. V. Actually, due to my indecisiveness I am now quite insure of which poem to use. At first I thought that I would not do the first poem because it would seem too much like propaganda, so I wrote another poem. But I was not inspired to write a piece of poetry so I came up with this other poem. It is quite amusing but I'm not sure if it will yield good results on an MMP video.
I think that I will make both videos and see which one is better. I will save them both to storage and present the one which I find more interesting.

My inability to write
A decent piece of poetry
Frustratingly annoying is
The lack of inspiration

A thousand themes run through my head
Too fast to catch and use
Because my thoughts are jumbled up
I’m utterly confused

Random little strips of thought
I catch and then I write them down
Still they don’t make any sense
At least not in that context

My soul is burning with a passion bright
A flaming hot inferno of the heart
And that’s a reason good enough for me
To change the meter of this poetry

MMP Plan

Step 1 I need to write a poem, and get it approved by Mrs. V
I have a lot of work with Shakespeare, but a lot less homework due to it, so I will have done the poem(Step1) by Thursday, 14th May

Step 2 I am going to choose some random pictures from the internet, with a high resolution. I also might additionally download or create a video that I will use.
I will do some research and get all the pictures I need by Friday, May 15th

Step 3 I will put together the video with text on Window Movie Maker.
I will work on the video the next weekend, but due to Shakespeare, I will have limited time, but will have done a great amount by Wednesday 20th May
Step 4 I will then make titles and credits.
The video should be done by that weekend. I will make the titles and credits, and basta.
Step 5 Next, I will choose a suitable soundtrack for my video (preferably without lyrics) and upload it.
By Monday 25th, I will have done and I will add soundtrack and then review it.
Step 6 Finally, I will watch my video many times and revise it, make a few slight changes and then create it.
Tuesday 26th May.
Step 7 Save it to student storage, or try to upload it to YouTube (probably won’t work)
Monday, 1st June, I will have it done and ready to upload.
PLAN

My Poem

Despite having uploaded a variety of different poems, I will continue to write some more poems. Originally I had in mind to use the poem "Ghazzah", but I decided against it, being inappropriate for multimedia. I prefer writing poems with a regular rhyme scheme, but I think that it is too old-fashioned for Multimedia Poetry, which is very flashy and a modern way of interpreting poetry. I will therefore write a new poem that will suit the project more. It will be the SHIT!

What is Multi Media Poetry?

They are sometimes known as video poems, and their names are self-explanatory; poems that are put into videos. They usually include music and a sequence of pictures or videos in the background while the text is spoken or just written in the foreground.
Multimedia Poetry is a genre that is evolving into an art form.

"Our extension of poetry into video seems only to ratify a deeper understanding, as poets and performers, that poetry rests in a continuous spectrum of expanded genres, each genre an amalgam, offering aesthetic expressions that conjoin text with some other creation. Poetry music. Poetry performance. Poetry theatre. Poetry film and video. Whole literatures in the cybernetic realm where the computer enacts by proxy the author's will upon the text. The breakdown of psychological barriers from literature on the page to literature on the stage was the public's prelude to realizing broader rewards in media poetry of all forms. Poetry video is the public's first step beyond. Even in its most essential form, it demolishes the old assumption that page and poem are one. We now know poetry is where you find it, in the expressions the world offers. We construct, save, and transmit these experiences for the future. Images and sounds now operate as words where we had no previous literature because the symbols of our poetry were confined to paper in the reader's hands. So we have not the end of a literacy, but the construction of a new one: visible, audible, temporal, conscious, tactile, bonding author and reader by their gaze."

- Kurt Heintz, Director of Chicago's Guild Complex Poetry Film festival and founder of the e-poet's network.

I watched many examples of MMP that were saved on the school storage. I didn't like most of them, they had very random pictures and music. The poems did not make any sense, I know that the students who wrote them could have done much better than that.
Also, the quality of the videos were very bad, which is not their fault, as they used an older version of Movie Maker, which produces low res videos.
I searched in the internet for videos of MMP, and I did not find any examples of MMP on Youtube besides the ones that were uploaded from our school last year, the same ones as on Student Storage.

Ghazza

The siren wails, but there’s nowhere to hide
The homes became deathtraps to those who tried
The prized city, so strong, was yesterday
They watch in horror as it fades away

Women, children, dying at the hands
Of people holding hostage their own lands
Still, minds of people mourning for the dead
Are easily corrupted and mislead

Deceived by those, who, fighting for a cause
Herd sacrificial lambs to lion’s claws
‘No cause without a sacrifice’ they say
The scapegoats, victims of their murderous play

The lives and dreams were shattered by the loss
Demoralised by the Crusader’s Cross
But hopes and dreams will never fade away,
The future comes, the past will never stay

Showing Mercy

It was going to be a beautiful day,
The river meandering along its way
The air was calm, the sun was bright,
The weather forecast turned out to be right

But what they don’t know is what they don’t see,
Storm clouds brewing inside of me
Thunder and lightning tearing apart,
And raging within my powerful heart

The wild, untamed beasts called fury and hate,
Are made powerless before it’s too late
As the clouds disappear, in horror they stare
And I suddenly realize
I just don’t care.

I don't know why

I don’t know
Why I left you
For him

We could have
Reached for the stars
And shined among them

But perhaps
He is twice the man
You’ll ever be.

Web 2.0

1.Write a post about what Web 2.0 is, how it evolved and its impact and benefits.
2. Link your sources to your post.
3. List at least 5 Web 2.0 tools that you are already using by adding a gadget.

1. The term "Web 2.0" refers to a perceived second generation of web development and design, that aims to facilitate communication, secure information sharing, interoperability, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities, hosted services, and applications; such as social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies.

2. www.wikipedia.com
3. Facebook, Myspace, Youtube, IGoogle, Firefox

Frogs

Frogs.
They are green. They are slimy. They are red when they are in the mixer after you press a button.
However, these are all common misconceptions on the lovely little friends
The stereotype frog has a miserable life. First off, its family has a bad reputation, being related to toads which are not just ugly but sometimes poisonous and also give you warts.
Furthermore, they are supposedly ugly and slimy, unpleasant to the touch and extremely stupid. Farmers try to get rid of their population because apparently frogs contaminate farming areas, and about midway through their miserable little lives they are scooped up by a great white stork and fed to his children.
Even the great frog-appreaciating storytellers, who tried to better the frog's reputation by telling people they are actually beautiful charmed princes, have been proved wrong scientifically.
But the greatest problem of all, is the way they are degraded by the French. There should be more campaigns against the unnecessary killing of frogs for food. There's not much on them anyway. Pah, desperate people.
The truth is that, frogs are very honourable little creatures.They eat little fruit flies and other molesting insects, which contributes to the removal of UIP(unnecessary insect population). They can also predict the weather.
Frogs come in various different beautiful colour schemes. There are bright green smooth ones, brownish ones, camouflage ones, and the more exotic ones include electric blue, red and navy, yellow and black stripes and green with red eyes. Watch out for those ones though, because they actually can kill you.
Besides that, they are very peace-loving animals. They deserve more acknowledgement than they get!
I have many frog friends. If they had facebook I would add them.
I once met a beautiful dark green frog in a wadi in Oman. He had golden eyes and I named him Prince. I also once met a big fat toad called Doodle. My parents told me not to touch with him otherwise I would get warts. So I didn't. He was bigger then my fist.
Frogs are also loyal companions and fun to play with. You can play games with them. I once played a game that i invented myself called "Drop and Stop". I dropped him and he stopped moving!

Famous Trailer

Dear Peeps
This is my first-ever blog post. I am aspiring to become a famous blogger. I KNOW I WILL become famous. I already have a famous youtube video, a trailer I made for the famous re-make of the movie Troy, filmed in the world-famous city of Belgrade, with famous actors.
Thanks for watching! Enjoy(and admit that it is the best trailer)