Our group is working with the poem, "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar. Evan, Kyle, and Kristine are in my group. We are making a video that incorporates our own voices reading the poem. We have already recorded the poem, and we read certain words all together, but other than that we switch off speaking lines. We have all looked up pictures that correspond to certain lines in the poem, so we are making the poem reading match up with pictures. We are planning on having a speech video clip at the end of the poem, as well as incorporate a few lines of spirituals over some of the pictures in the video. The words on the screen will always be white over a black background, symbolizing the "white" covering of the mask over a black person (background of the screen). We are going to have some music in the background, but very quietly.
As it pertains to specific roles, we all are working on getting pictures to go behind the poetry reading, but Evan is working with the sound and video-editing process more than the content of the video. He is in charge of working with the recorded poem and the music to make it flow together. Kristine is working on the flyer with Evan, but because he will be editing more, she will do a lot of the flyer. Kyle and I are the writers and more analytical-less creative people in the group. So, we are paying attention to the details in the poem and finding ways to make sure that our rendition of the poem properly highlights the tones, figurative language, and other literary devices in the poem. So, we are working together to write the artist statement. Overall, we have a detailed plan and all have an assignment to begin working on this weekend. When we get together next, we plan on making a detailed outline of the video so that Evan can put it all together. We will write the artist statement together Tuesday after we both brainstorm ideas this weekend. Kristine will be brainstorming ideas for the flyer this weekend and will begin making that Tuesday as well.
