This final paper has been kicking my ass. After picking a very short poem on a whim, almost impulsively, the project has proven to be very difficult, the physical and digital part. While I did somehow manage to make my paper over 5 pages, I knew that I was repeating myself a lot throughout my work, rephrasing the same points in different context. The poem I chose (Frank O’Hara’s Steps) is fairly unpopular and I found little to nothing in my research of it. I was only given helpful sources after my conference with Professor Kaufman. After the conference, I realized that a lot of validity is missing from my paper because of my lack of actual research, and was hit with the fact that I now had to pretty much rewrite it based on the new information.
The digital part of the project should be easy for me as I made many videos when I was younger, but that was such a long time ago. I need to familiarize myself with my parents’ higher end camera, I don’t have the advanced editing software I had on my old PC, and my idea of how the video is going to look is set in stone, but getting the footage may be a hassle. Between fixing up this paper, putting together the digital part which I have yet to physically start without footage, rewriting the last paper, and assignments/tests/finals in other classes in the home stretch of this semester, it looks like I won’t be leaving the house for a while.
