When reading over other student's portfolios I realized that I, like most was more than pleasantly surprised by this course. I, like others, thought that this course could possibly turn out to be dreadfully boring like many literature courses end up being. However, I love literature and so I wanted to give this course a try. This class has ended up being probably one of my favorite classes I have ever taken! I loved learning new ways of interpreting literature, as well as learning new media programs. Music and literature are two huge aspects of my life, and being able to use music as a means of interpreting literature was so much fun for me.

The play list assignment has been my favorite project we have completed so far in the semester. I chose Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk as my inspiration for the play list. This off the wall novel has so many twists and turns and outrageous characters that it was so much fun finding songs to represent aspects of the novel and characters. In my first play list I did not give a lot of explanation of what or why or how the songs I chose related to the novel or specific characters so for my revision I tried much harder to give more thorough explanations. I also used more lyrics, music videos and excerpts from the novel in an attempt to better explain my choices of songs.

Original play list
http://www.teachmix.com/nightlit/node/19/revisions/198/view

Revised play list
http://www.teachmix.com/nightlit/node/19

For my character collage I once again used the novel Invisible Monsters as my inspiration. I chose the main character and narrator Shannon McFarland as my main inspiration for the collage. I used Shannon's veiled face as the focal point of the collage. For the background I used a burning house to represent Evie Cottrell's mansion burning down on her wedding day; set fire by Shannon of course. And off to the sides of the collage a shotgun and camera, aspects of Shannon's former life; she shot her lower jaw off with a shotgun because she was tired of being beautiful, and a camera because she was a model before the shotgun incident.

For the revisions on my character collage I changed the floating camera to a camera on a tripod, and I made the shotgun more visible by editing the color.

Original Character Collage
http://www.teachmix.com/nightlit/node/73

Revised Character collage
http://www.teachmix.com/nightlit/node/132

I used a poem by Khalil Gibran for my poem collage.


You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore

You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days.

Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness,

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love

Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.

Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf

Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,

Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.

For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.

And stand together yet not too near together:

For the pillars of the temple stand apart,

And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.


For my collage I used the last three lines as inspiration. I love the philosophy on love and relationships this poem offers that two people should not completely depend on one another, and that they should have seperate interests. That is my interpretation anyway!


For my revisions I changed the photograph of pillars to one where the pillars stood farther a part and I also edited the masks of the sky and the trees. I also added lines of the poem as text on top of the sky.

Original Poem Collage
http://www.teachmix.com/nightlit/node/74

Revised Poem Collage
http://www.teachmix.com/nightlit/node/130

Posts-

Innocence- http://www.teachmix.com/nightlit/node/102#comment-158
Hills Like Whit Elephants- http://www.teachmix.com/nightlit/node/43#comment-166
A Good Man is Hard to Find- http://www.teachmix.com/nightlit/node/166
The Distant Moon- http://www.teachmix.com/nightlit/node/167
Girl- http://www.teachmix.com/nightlit/node/64#comment-167
Rites of Passage- http://www.teachmix.com/nightlit/node/168
Advice to My Son- http://www.teachmix.com/nightlit/node/169
Betwixt and Bewildered- http://www.teachmix.com/nightlit/node/170
Comment- http://www.teachmix.com/nightlit/node/21#comment-168
Comment- http://www.teachmix.com/nightlit/node/165#comment-169
Comment- http://www.teachmix.com/nightlit/node/111#comment-170