Well, unfortunately it appears I’m going to have to revise my initial plans for my term project. I was attempting to construct a montage that chronicled the progression of Kanye West’s life as well as his ever-changing personality and mannerisms, but finding material that was obtainable and had no copyright restrictions was far too difficult to be practical. I suppose that reconstruction is often just a necessary step in the process of creating art, so I can’t be too hard on myself for never bringing my idea to fruition.
As a reviewer and reporter for the film section of the Michigan Daily newspaper, I have been involved in several exciting stories including reviews of the films Straw Dogs, Paris, and Terminator: Salvation, an interview with Robert Zemeckis (director of Forrest Gump, Castaway, Back to the Future Series, and others) as well as coverage of a Muslim Film Festival that will be touring campus very soon. For my final project, I plan on composing written poetry using only the fragments of the various reviews and interviews I have conducted as a Michigan Daily Staff member.
Specifically, I plan to highlight significant words and (potentially) portions of my reviews/interviews for the purpose of rearranging them in an artistic fashion. There should be between eight and twelve poems, each of which will be limited to a single review or interview. I’ll also combine the graphics from the promotional pictures and posters that relate to the films with the poetic composition for aesthetic effect.
By developing this project, I hope to reveal the relationship between the meaning of a word and its proximity to other words. We are shown different perspectives and meanings that can be extrapolated from the same words when their position on the page is manipulated.
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