This is the presentation for starting the work in the Video Poetry Marathon in February 2015. This was one track of the Hack for Fi (Hack your Heritage), the hackathon organized by Open Knowledge Finland in Media Factory, Aalto University.

2. TERVETULOA

3. 10.15hs
Kick-­‐off by Mariana
10.45hs
Choose a
poet/poem
Start workingin
the
video
poem
13.Hs
Lunch time
14hs
Continue working
17hs
Dinnertime
18hs
Showing the
end results +
discussion about the
process,
the
collaboration,
the
dialogue between the
poets and
the
video
artists.
Discuss possible venues and
contexts to
show
them
Bye bye!
Thanks!
Day
Program

4. What will
be do?
1 VIDEO POEM
1video maker
+
1writer
= 1team

5. WHAT IS
VIDEO
POETRY?
It
is
a
form
of
video
art
that
mix
poetry
text
with
acoustic
and
visual
elements.
http://www.thecontinentalreview.com/quoi/ http://www.videopoesia.com/index.php?lang=eng&op=home

6. Where
are the
poems
coming
from?

7. Where
are the
videos
coming
from?
SLS
+
TVC
(EUScreenXL)
+
Online
digital
archives
Screenshot from Video
from The
Society of
Swedish Literaturein
Finland.

8. Music
& sound
effects?
Free Sound
(Yle arkisto)
+
Online
Free
Music
Archives

9. An
example?
HARE

10. more
TWENTY
SECOND
FILM
POEM

11. SLS
’s
videos:
The
Society of
Swedish Literature in
Finland
• The
oldest
are
from
the
30s.
• The
newest
are
from
the
50s.
• There
are
white
and
black
and
color ones.
Themes:
• How
to?
In
which
something
is
described.
How
to
do
beer?
• Typical
Finish
dances
• Landscapes
in
Finland
• Winter
fishing
• Estonian
Playing:
adults
and
kids.
Vimeo and
Finna have
these
videos
is
lower
resolution.
• Finna-­‐>
video-­‐>
organisation-­‐>
SLS-­‐>
the
list
of
18
video
is
there.

12. TVC’s videos:
Catalonian Television
These videos have the
topic in
the
file name.
Mostly color films.
We got permission only for
this use,
but the
videos cannot be downloaded
freely.
Do not use them after this trial,
delete them from your computers.
Themes:
landscapes,
cities,
ruins
musician playing
and
luthier making instruments
doctors and
elderly peopl
biodiversity
storm
Please,
write down the
name of
each piece of
material you use,
because you need
them at
the
end of
the
videos.

13. Online digital resources
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Free_media_resources/Video

14. More online digital resources
Pond5
Kallio
archive

15. In
the
hard disk
This presentation(with
the
links to
the
archives)
TVC
and
SLS
archive materials
A
folder with
logos
that the
videos need to
have.
One
logo
for
the
CC
license.
If you want to
change the
licence,
go to
Creative
Commons
Do not delete
nothing from
this hard disk!!

16. Questions?
Mariana
Salgado &
Roxana Crisólogo