The English For New Media class recently completed projects combining both English and New Media. Student’s Angie Timms, Jacki Hartman, and Neshia Starks started with the poem, Thistles by Ted Hughes, and created an animated visual poem video from the descriptive language used in Thistles. Student Jacki stated, “ This was probably one of the neatest projects I have worked on at DSU. It is really great to collaborate with others on ideas like this; we all came together to craft something beautiful—people from animation, ENM, and the local DSU cafeteria-- and it shows!” Creative partner, Neshia said, “ Yes, it really was a good effort on everyone’s part. I am proud to be a part of this!”
Pictures were taken from Google images, and cut out through Adobe Photoshop in a painstaking effort that took the students hours to do. “We tried to make a visual poem for Hughes’ poem and stay away from a literal interpretation, so as not to take away from what poetry is all about” said Angie. A rather gritty and bleak representation of war and the blooming of life, quickly followed by destruction and death became themes for the video.
You can watch the video on YouTube after typing in Thistles by Ted Hughes in the search engine. It will be up for a few more months.
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