Blog 3: 3 ideas I found interesting from E-Lit Vol. 1 to use as models for my project idea

1:  Dawn by Alan Sondheim The combination of sounds, images, and text caught  my eye.  They all ran in a loop as the poetic texts and scenic images faded out.  Mostly, I enjoyed the consistent soothing crackling sound.  I like the idea of combining these features especially with the rare idea of audio.  It seems attractive to have multiple senses working for my project.

2:  Stud Poetry by Marko Niemi
Dr. Chandler gave some interesting insight last class to electronic literature.  Mostly, it's about the navigation as a game than the story.  Here was an actual video game of poker with poetry.  Cards were dealt with words on them replacing Kings, Queens, Aces, and so on.  I believe the purpose was to show the power in words in poetry, but I still didn't see it.  I played a few hands and the same words showed up over and over.  The objective of the game was obviously to win with the best five card hand, but I only won once with an "ecstasy high".  I lost a lot to pairs which meant plain matches of words.  So I didn't see the poetic significance.  It was partly confusing, but I played the game.  Regardless, the idea of an actual game is definite for my project.

3:  Strings by Dan Waber
This was really cool to watch but it got old.  It's a flash project or a motion picture of words.  In argument 1, a black squiggly line morphed into script words "yes" or "no".  In argument 2, script words "yes", "no", and "maybe" floated around eachother.  My favorite was the slinky effect of "haha" growing into extra "has" and a bigger laugh.  It felt like seeing a magic trick, "now you see it, now you don't", which can get old.  So I plan on using motion picture as a feature but not as much and with objects rather than words moving.

Overall, every choice is to take advantage of electronic literature.  My project idea is sports related.  I plan on creating a sports trivia game with a combo of clues taking the parts of the features stated above.  I'm thinking the clues as images, motion pictures, text, etc. will make the game interesting.  I'm not sure how to structure it into a story yet, but between football, basketball, soccer, baseball, hockey, etc. it might end up as a fantasy competition blending with knowledge of the games.