Saturday, December 21, 2013


Lens
The camera's snaps set down the beat for the endless tires
As Boston whips by
The seats bouncing, 
The lamp posts and telephone poles and street signs
Scanning over the lens
A rectangle
Too fast for the rule of thirds or 
Balanced exposure or aperture
Leaving surprise genius to discover later

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Final Project Proposal

What form(s) will your project take?
My final project will involve making a short film in the perspective of a "tiger" daughter, referencing a memoir written by a Chinese "tiger" mother several years ago. I'm hoping that the video will be longer than 5 minutes and have a beginning, middle, and end.
I'll also put together a collection of some of the poems I've written in the past two months.

What direction will your poems take?
I'm mostly using this as an opportunity to explore a medium that I'm not very familiar with and fool around more with word and visual metaphors. For example, I'm planning on using a card game to represent how education uses numbers to measure "success". I'm also going to force myself to work in more anecdotal stanzas instead of just "floating" around in theories/ideas. I'm also hoping on playing with faster cuts and more effects, and recording a more emotional narration. Because I will probably have multiple actresses playing one character, the video won't show anyone's complete face.