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(Done with Laura)

So What I learned from the experience of changing words and mixing all the things around, is that in contemporary poems order doesn’t matter. It is sort of like an extreme way of interpreting something, it is as if you have pieces of a puzzle, and you’re allowed to make it as simple or as intricate as you’d like. And in this puzzle it doesn’t matter because you make the pieces fit together, you mold the shape. You are the artist, not the original one but in contemporary poems everyone is the author in some way.

So Since our poem is about living your life to the fullest, i was thinking that maybe we could have two different scenarios of people and show how one is living a great life, and the other one is sort of just rolling by in the shadows. Also i want to incorporate some cool effects in the video, like a short film. Im actually glad that we have this video because it got me back into the script writing mood again, and god knows i haven’t picked up a pen and note pad in forever. Also i want to play with light, and music. i think the video is going to be more than 5 minutes though, i hope thats alright.

Cool. So i have had experience with making videos. i used to be a total drama nerd in highschool. Im really pumped for this paper/video project. Our group has an amazing poem picked out, and i have so many things i want to say about it that i basically cant wait to get started. One thing im looking forward to in the video is making it really dramatic. I think that when we have the person come in and teach us how to make great use of our Macs itll be fun. i havent made a video in a really long time and im really psyched to get back into it.

Also over the vacation ive been doing a lot of watching movies, getting exposed to different types of film-making styles. And honestly there are so many things and ways to approach this video. I really cant wait to get started. 😀 Yay!

“I like it when there is some feeling of threat or sense of menace in short stories. I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it’s good for the circulation. There has to be tension, a sense that something is imminent, that certain things are in relentless motion, or else, most often, there simply won’t be a story. What creates tension in a piece of fiction is partly the way the concrete words are linked together to make up the visible action of the story. But it’s also the things that are left out, that are implied, the landscape just under the smooth (but sometimes broken and unsettled) surface of things”

I agree with Carver. I agree with him absolutley 100% because even though a short story is only a few pages it should still have the same effect for the reader, and should stir up emotions, same  as a long novel does.  People dont read works of litterature just to pass the time, people pick up books because they want to be affected in some sense, they want to know that what they are reading has a point. Really now, if we humans wanted to fill ourselves with something that gives us no true meaning or value, we would just stick to filling our days watching ‘Jersey Shore’.

I think of it this way, a book is a movie that hasnt been filmed yet. And movies that have little to no plot certainly arent award winning films. Why waste your time writing something as an author, if it makes no difference in anybodys life. And why waste your time reading something as a reader if it makes no impact on you, and doesnt toy with your emotions at all. It is human nature to want to be surprised, and to want to be stimulated in some way. I think it is safe to say that we dont want to life boring lives.

I think that Carver follows his own advice with cathedral because with each sentence you read, you question the narrators sanity. Not in a way that you would think that he needs to be locked up, but in a sense that it arises questions within you, internally. Why does he keep jumping from topic to topic. Anyways i really enjoyed reading “cathedral.”

Russell Brand 🙂