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Our Video Project
We are creating a video,
based on a poem called “Winnipeg Seen as a Body of Space and Time” the poem was
written by James Reaney. It is about how things have changed over the years in
Winnipeg, the good and the bad. On this site we have the actual storyboards we
have created, the whole process we went through, the real video, the poems that
our fellow grade seven students composed, and the evaluation.
Winnipeg Seen as a Body of
Time and Space
Winnipeg, what once were you. You were;
Your hair was grass by the river ten feet tall,
Your arms were burr oaks and ash leaf maples,
Your backbone was a crooked silver muddy river,
Your thoughts were ravens in flocks, your bones were snow,
Your legs were trails and your blood was a people
Who did
what the stars did and the sun.
Then what were you? You were cracked enamel like
Into parishes and strips that come down to the river.
Convents were built, the river lined with nuns
Praying and windmills turning and your people
Had a blood that did what a star did and a Son.
Then on top of you fell
A boneyard wrecked auto gent, his hair
Made of rusted car door handles, his fingernails
Of red Snowflake Pastry signs, his belly
Of buildings downtown; his arms of sewers,
His nerves electric wires, his mouth a telephone,
His backbone – a cracked cement street. His heart
An orange pendulum bus crawling with the human fleas
Of a so-so civilization – half gadget, half flesh –
I don’t know what I would have instead –
And they did what they did more or less.
James Reaney
     
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