Self Publication Project!

One thing I noticed was that it is way easier to create a poem that is dark and brooding than anything else... Considering the time of year and that I would be sharing this with other people, I tried very hard not to produce a poem that would stifle the mood of the readers, and create something ambient and more or less uplifting instead. This is the end product!

Estimation of viewers reached (both online and from letters and posters):  about 530 people

Total Views: approx. 900      Total Likes: Approx 130    

The Little Bird - Poem Project

The Little Bird - Stop Motion Animation Poem

For the Poetry Project I decided to make a multimedia animation video. I'm not good at drawing at all nor have I ever fathomed I would make an animation before, but trying this out was actually really fun and learned a lot. After I wrote the poem I went around the neighbourhood taking pictures and videos of things, then put them in the video. I then used my Samsung tablet to make stop motion clips, (in total I think I drew 900 frames or something...) It probably took about 6 hours to complete all the clips I needed because I was learning as I went, and I gathered and created all the material for this video over the course of about a week. I then included an improvized song I played on the piano for the background music. I then put everything together using Adobe Premier Pro, and overlayed the poem over the video. After multiple tweaks and last minute edits, I finally have an end product! I intend to post my video onto Youtube, Facebook, and art sharing forums to share with my friends and hopefully strangers that enjoy poetry. Hopefully people will enjoy my project as much as I enjoyed making it~

Lord of the Flies Found Poem

Poem, music and video made by Katie L

Read by Supissara P, Katie L, Catherine L, Zoe W, Queenie C, Kevin Y, Anas A.

Photos by Katie L, Catherine L, Supissara P, Kevin Y.

2015 11C

"The Beast Within"

(Found Poem from Lord of the Flies by William Golding, pages 5-213)

Over the island

There was a blink of bright

Sparks shone

Eyes shining

Strings of delight

Beyond the forest

The clouds continued

Defeated by silence.

There was no laughter

There was no noise

The air was thick

It was dark.           

He raised his head

He closed his eyes

He was silent

Even the sounds of nightmares

no longer reached him     

Then the breeze died down

In the short chill of dawn

The beast

Trailing vapours fiery eyes

Moved out towards the open sea

From the darkness

Like the cry of a flying bird

A terrible scream

They shattered the leaves in their fear

The air was heavy with unspoken knowledge

That bloody dance                   

The darkness took possession of the island

Invisible yet strong

Demented.

Surrounded by a fringe of creatures

Fear spilled out into the air

The end of innocence

The darkness of a man's heart.     

No one cared to think,

That one may think of rescue

One was helpless

One was condemned

What went wrong?

The island has no secrets

Maybe there is a beast

Maybe it's only us.       

Do Seek Their Meat from God

The human and the panther

The parent and the children left alone

A common target

They must live

A fight for survival

The conservation of kinship

When the lions roar

Will they get their prey?

Why does mankind still have the superiority 

in the wild's domain

Ecological hierarchy is breached

Is conscience valued more than the basic necessities of life?

There comes the day

when god's gift of life

becomes

the devil's present of death

The consequences are the same

whatever the outcome

A goal will be gone

There will be a child left to die