Project Process & Development

In order to prove the existence of concrete poetry in this project we created the ballerina figure with pen tool to make a path in Illustrator. The writing used to create the shape of the ballerina is a handwriting font, rather than a gothic font, as we wanted softer lines to create the shape. This is because the ballerina is often associated with gracious lines and movements. Further, the skirt on the ballerina shape is made by brush tool free hand in Illustrator.

The bird figure isn't inspired by concrete poetry, but rather semiotics as we thought of it as analogy for the ballerina. We made it with brush tool in Illustrator. The bird has been added to our project because we were able to finish the ballerina earlier than expected. We also thought of it as a challenge to see what we could achieve with the software. I think the bird becomes is an unexpected element of creativity to the initial plan introduced in our proposal.

Adding music has also been essential for this project. We've had to make sure every word hits the screen in sync to the music, meaning the frame rate of the images has needed to be simultaneous to the lyrics of the song. We edited the song in Audition before adding it to Flash.

Because we had all done different parts of the animation in Flash, we needed a way to combine the different sequences; we chose to use Adobe Premiere as our tool for this process because it allowed us to import the sound with improved quality.