Will Close Initial Walkthrough

[0:00] Video software with e-poem playing.

Hi everybody this is Will Close. I’m going to be walking you through “Matter,” my e-poem. It’s an original poem, so my interpretation of it was pretty literal at first. I wrote it about… It’s about intelligence, so there are two men who are in like a brain, a grey room, and the floodlight is meant to be intelligence, and it’s sort of about how… It’s kind of left-brain/right-brain, but it’s mostly about how people don’t really unlock their intelligence because there’s so many things distracting them from it. I started off searching for clips on Vimeo and stuff.

[0:49] The mime clip plays in the software

I started off looking for men in a grey room, so that led me to this clip, and then as I worked on it, I moved a little bit more and more away from the sort of literal depiction of it. I found this, it was actually an experiment I think, but this face with the lights on it, and I thought it was really great, and that kind of like the clip that anchored the whole piece.

This is how I found it, and I just thought that that was great, and I thought that that was really sort of a great symbolic representation of what I was trying to say with this poem. For my song choice, I was just kind of listening for things on Spotify, and heard “Dancing in the Moonlight” by King Harvest, and just thought that it would be great. I don’t know, I just liked the song. I loved the intro; the piano’s really cool. I was looking for clips on Vimeo and YouTube, finding things that I’d seen before, finding things that I hadn’t seen before, and piecing them together. And then the text, I mean as you can see they’re all fade-in/fade-out, fade-in/fade-out, and I guess I wanted that part to be really present in the piece, just because I wanted to read the poem and have time to read the text that was on there. You, in order to do the fade-in/fade-out, I’m sure you guys know this, but you just drag the arrow to the beginning or to the end to have it fade-in or fade-out. Part of the e-poem that I liked the most was probably right here, near the end when I’ve got the floodlight actually turn on. I was lucky, because the way the song change kind of worked out with my clip length. It ended up being about intelligence, but also about collaboration and the best way to unlock intelligence. So, there’s not a ton of variety in there in terms of the effects that I used, you know I have a couple times when I change the opacity of the clip or have the words fade-in and fade-out. This video actually with the eye and the T.V. is really interesting; I had seen it before and remembered it and wanted to use it, and it’s a really interesting video. In order to find it, I think you just search “trippy animation.” It’s like one of the first ones that comes up, and it’s a really cool kind of e-poem interpretation journey of what, you know, television and media does to the world and does to humans, and I just thought that that really added a lot to it. I hope you guys liked the e-poem; I hope my walkthrough gave you a little bit of insight into it. It’s not, you know, the deepest thing in the whole world, but thank you for your time. This is “Matter” by Will Close.

[4:38] E-poem plays through the end of the walkthrough