Poetry + Images compilation

Adobe Spark makes it easy to create and share videos that you can make in less than half an hour. This one took about that amount of time and the most complicated part was completing the search for the poem and the artist to go with it. They offer music selections and also allow you to add your own music if you'd like.

 Pros: Free so far. No download required.

Cons: Requires attribution. Slightly confusing to figure out how to download for sharing on YouTube.




 Here is the same idea produced via Giphy.com. This format is best for short gifs--not a lot of words. You can see that the full poem doesn't completely fit here. You also cannot manipulate the sizing of images or add music or narration.

 
via GIPHY

Multimedia Examples

It's almost over-whelming once you start looking for examples of multimedia. There are photo blogs, and video blogs, and interactive games, and online word poetry repositories. For the purposes of today's class discussion, I will provide a sampling, but there are many, many more out there.

Story and pictures from The New Yorker on first-time voters.

And music and video...

Sam Frank's “Happy Russia” from https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/issues

Kate Greenstreet’s “locating faraway objects”

Ander Monson’s “For Orts”" 

Jesse Darling's Tumblr: Brave New What