Poetry has been around for many centuries. The Greeks first used it to tell stories since then it has evolved as a creative way to display thoughts. Every piece of poetry requires one to look at the poem as more than just words because within that lays so much more. In several ways poetry itself and the poetic mode of documentary are very similar; both require a flow of rhythm, both have more depth than what you see, and both have a specific pattern that is seen through the work. The poetic mode of documentaries is used to stress mood tone, and affect. (Nichols 162). In the same manner as poems this mode of documentaries require more thought than what is just seen on the screen.

In my representation of the poetic mode I have chose a walk with my niece. In most poetic modes of documentary there is no focus on social actors. She is a character but since I don’t want to distract the viewer I won’t give her name. This is supposed to be a walk I took with her and in the first frame she is the only thing of color in a black and white world. The second frame is her stopping to inspect a plant and as she touches it the plant starts to get its color back. In the third frame as she walks away the whole garden regains its color. Finally in the fourth frame she has brought color back to the whole world.

I was trying to show what it feels like to experience the world in a particular, poetic way (Nichols 162). In this case it was what is like to have a walk with her. One of the points I was trying to portray is what it is like to have her innocence in your life and how because of this innocence her whole world is in color. The poetic mode stress visual and acoustic rhythms, patterns and the overall form of the film. (Nichols 162). I used these 4 specific frames to give the image as a whole a smoother flow. One of the patterns used in this piece is that the more color that is added to the picture she has moved closer to the camera. This is also a representation of how the closer she is the more color that is brought into life.