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.

How would u interpret this poem as moving image?
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.
Reply:i suggest you master-bate and rub come in ya eyes!





BIATCHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
Reply:Just an idea, why not have short cameos of him "using/creating" each item, and at the end...have someone signing for the bag of "effects" after identifying him?
Reply:Listen to the song "Save Me" by Nickleback and think about how phrasing in the lyrics fit the items. Going with the crime scene image could be very powerful...perhaps do it as an "unwind". Start with a closeup of the police tape and work your way back through the scene as a cop/CSI examines and bags each piece of evidence and then the last image is of the body...or if you want something more evocative, a closeup of the left hand with the ring finger bare and blood pooling beneath the hand and arm.



This is a poem about despair and betrayal. The most tragic line to me: "A giveaway photograph stashed in his wallet, a keepsake banked in the heart of a locket."



How sad that the photo of a complete stranger (the "giveaway photograph that is displayed in new wallets) is what he clings to....



I linked the Nickleback video for you....
Reply:manic depressive try prozac
Reply:I think she left him...maybe the song You'll never walk alone would be a good song...you need a univeral song everyone knows...maybe just music no words.