Question:
How would u interpret this poem as moving image?
About His Person
Five pounds fifty in change, exactly,
a library card on its date of expiry.
A postcard stamped,
unwritten, but franked,
a pocket size diary slashed with a pencil
from March twenty-fourth to the first of April.
A brace of keys for a mortise lock,
an analogue watch, self winding, stopped.
A final demand
in his own hand,
a rolled up note of explanation
planted there like a spray carnation
but beheaded, in his fist.
A shopping list.
A givaway photgraph stashed in his wallet,
a kepsake banked in the heart of a locket.
no gold or silver,
but crowning one finger
a ring of white unweathered skin.
That was everything.
Simon Armitage
PS it is about the items the police find on a dead mans body (he commited suicide). do you think if i produce a news report of it like MAN FO4ND DEAD etc and newspaper headlines and ppl laying down flowers and crying and ppl being interviewed and place sealed off with the blue/white police tape etc would be good? what do you think.
Additional Details3 months ago
I am trying to produce a short film clip like 5 mins maybe or even less interpreting it. how would you do it? pls inspire me
3 months ago
what do you think of me using the song Save a Life by The Fray? its sad and how does it make you think that his wife died? some ppl say his wife died? do you think? or she left him? hmmm...
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
If it were me, I'd use very close photography. Never show more than one item on screen at once but at the film goes on, pan the camera out to reveal them all arranged around him in some sort of shape (a heart leaps to mind but whatever takes your fancy) so the viewer knows all these things were part of him, if not on him in your film.