Thaoughts on our project

So, after spending quite a bit of time as a group Friday putting together some of the webpages for our site and deciding how they ought to link together, and how to represent our table of contents visually (Dave has a picture of a table we were going to use, I think...post it Dave), I spent much of the weekend working with comic images for my particular poem.

For fun, here is a trailer for the movie that inspired this poem, originally. Click here to view
I don't know if I ever saw the whole movie, or just the trailer. My poem strays far from the original plot line and is more of a conglomeration of various B-slasher films I remember from my childhood. Mainly, even as a child, I was obsessed with the title of the film. How beautifully poetic is that title? Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-A-Rama. Some disgruntled poet thought of that title, I'm sure. As well as Hell-Bent Hookers, though I suspect I made that up (or my father did). I did find a myspace page titled hell-bent hooker.

So, anyone wondering why these are my childhood memories? Good question. Well, I bonded with my father frequently over B horror films (that, yes, did feature many scantily clad women, so there may have been some appeal there for him beyond the humor). We laughed together at these films before everyone was laughing at Evil Dead 2 [Hell, we laughed at the original Evil Dead].Bruce Campbell did star in this version, but the campiness was not overplayed, though still funny. The second Evil Dead is virtually the same plot, but the campiness is played up for obvious comic effect.

My thoughts on the project thus far:

• What if I had chosen a more lyric poem rather than a straight, albeit poetic, narrative? I wonder if this would have been easier to turn into a comic form visually, because I could take more liberties with the visuals I choose to associate with the text? Would it seem more like a poem?
• My narrative poem is a poem in my mind partly because of the attention I pay to line and stanza breaks, which is changed (not lost per se) within the comic book representation. Of course, I also hold that the language itself distinguishes it as well as the visuals. So in creating a narrative comic-poem, am I opening up the what is a prose poem discussion? Dave's poem series is also quite narrative, but more personal than mine, and Brett's is the most associative and personal. We should discuss how all this has been effecting our visual-making process.
  
• We plan to interpret a more lyric poem as a central motif within our site as well. I wonder how this will differ?
• What are we creating with this site?