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
2007-04-13 03:20:29 · 6 answers · asked by allgiggles1984 6 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
'As moving image' i meant.
2007-04-13 03:21:23 · update #1
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. 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.
2007-04-13 03:23:57 · update #2
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...
2007-04-13 03:40:26 · update #3
Acid is bad.
2007-04-13 03:23:34 · answer #1 · answered by st0l1 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Like your idea.
Perhaps you could intersperse the images with still frame flashes of the events relating to his personal effects.
Wedding photo.
The moment he entered his house with the shopping his wife wanted and found her dead and a newspaper showing the 24th March.
His wife's funeral.
Putting his child's first hair in the locket.
A stamp collection with him about to peel off the stamp from the card.
And so on.
Good luck!
Saturday Morning Afterthought!
It probably does denote that his wife had left him , but I think implying she died makes for stronger imagery.
2007-04-13 03:34:32 · answer #2 · answered by Christine H 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
pay interest to the music "keep Me" by technique of Nickleback and picture about how phraseology contained in the lyrics in good condition the products. Going with the crime scene image will be very useful...possibly do it as an "unwind". start up with a closeup of the police tape and artwork your some time previous by ability of the scene as a cop/CSI examines and bags each little bit of evidence and then the most suitable image is of the body...or in case you want some thing extra evocative, a closeup of the left hand with the ring finger bare and blood pooling under the hand and arm. it really is a poem about melancholy and betrayal. the most tragic line to me: "A giveaway image stashed in his wallet, a souvenir banked contained in the middle of a locket." How unhappy that the picture of an entire stranger (the "giveaway image it really is displayed in new wallets) is what he clings to.... I suitable the Nickleback video for you....
2016-12-03 23:12:45 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The image that comes to mind, is a forensics mortician examining a dead body, removing personal possessions, and notable facts to determine the cause of death during an autopsy.
The guy killed himself because his wife left him.
2007-04-13 03:27:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It seems to me that a man just wrote a suicide note and killed himself because he lost his wife.
2007-04-13 03:25:59 · answer #5 · answered by XeroAngel 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah I like your video idea.. but have it as a silent video clip and read the poem over it.. maybe in black and white?!
Moving poem though ;'(
2007-04-13 03:29:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋