Mr. Evenski gratefully acknowleges the source of this project: Amanda Dahlgern is an art teacher at Canyon Crest Academy in San Diego. Visit her class website to see this project in its original form.
Find (or write) a poem written in the popular Haiku form of Japanese poetry. You will create an artistic animation in Macromedia Flash that presents, illustrates, and enhances the Haiku. It is much more important that the animation is elegant and sophisticated visually than technically. It is okay for this animation to be technically simple. Concentrate your efforts on showing the poem in an aesthetically-pleasing animation, with appropriate colors, fonts, photographs, graphics, etc. Be wary of the following pitfall: many students who first work in Flash tend to make silly, "cartoony" animations. Those are okay for practice work, but not okay for this project. This poetry animation needs to be visually elegant and aesthetically-pleasing!
Be sure you follow Copyright Law with any graphics, photographs, and music you choose to use in your animation and be sure to also proudly display both the author of the poem's name and your name as the creator of the animation.
"Poetry Animation" Mini-Project DUE at the beginning of class on:
Here are some examples of what I mean by a "poetry animation" (these are professional projects, so don't get too intimidated...):
Here are some wonderful student examples of Poetry Animation Mini-Projects:
basics: the toolbox | name | jitters | changing shape | shape to text | shape hints | face | gradient glow | animating a gradient | bouncing ball | motion path | text fade | alpha fade | da boat | 5 masks | effects | button 9-1 | button 9-2
projects: drawing | haiku | portfolio site | commercial | worst case | band site |
links and resources: sound | showcase | Flash doodles | Flash links | web design | home | flash home
