Shakespeare's Virtual Theatre
Shakespeare Visual Project Collaborative
Shakespeare Visual Project Assignment:
Over the course of the following week, you will be designing an iMovie video based on your interpretation of one of the soliloquies or major speaches delivered by one of the characters in the play Macbeth, by William Shakespeare.
Requirements:
Step One - Complete the warm-up sheet in which you identify the lines you plan to visually present. This sheet requires you to identify the speaker, provide the context, and to analyze the passage for the character's tone and emotional state within the scene.
Step Two - Type the lines from the play as they appear in the text. Be sure to cite the Act, scene, specific lines and page numbers.
Step Three - Collect images to incorporate into the imovie. You must use at least five images. Use of silent video is also an option. These images and videos may be collected from the internet (be sure to cite all sources) or they may be taken with a digital camera, home recorder or flip camera, etc.
Step Four - Import your images and or video into the imovie application on the Apple Mac computer in the computer lab and begin the process of editing your images by pairing them to the lines of the major speech or soliloquy. Make sure to save your work and return to the same computer each time we work in the computer lab.
Step Five - Export your video and save it to the desktop. Once this step is accomplished, return to this blog and upload your video as a new post so that students may view your presentation and provide commentary, questions, praise and feedback.
Below you will find an example of a visual presentation of a soliloquy from Macbeth, Act V, scene v, lines 17-28. The lines are spoken by Macbeth and read as follows:
She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.
Notice how the student pairs the each line to a specific image or video.
Over the course of the following week, you will be designing an iMovie video based on your interpretation of one of the soliloquies or major speaches delivered by one of the characters in the play Macbeth, by William Shakespeare.
Requirements:
Step One - Complete the warm-up sheet in which you identify the lines you plan to visually present. This sheet requires you to identify the speaker, provide the context, and to analyze the passage for the character's tone and emotional state within the scene.
Step Two - Type the lines from the play as they appear in the text. Be sure to cite the Act, scene, specific lines and page numbers.
Step Three - Collect images to incorporate into the imovie. You must use at least five images. Use of silent video is also an option. These images and videos may be collected from the internet (be sure to cite all sources) or they may be taken with a digital camera, home recorder or flip camera, etc.
Step Four - Import your images and or video into the imovie application on the Apple Mac computer in the computer lab and begin the process of editing your images by pairing them to the lines of the major speech or soliloquy. Make sure to save your work and return to the same computer each time we work in the computer lab.
Step Five - Export your video and save it to the desktop. Once this step is accomplished, return to this blog and upload your video as a new post so that students may view your presentation and provide commentary, questions, praise and feedback.
Below you will find an example of a visual presentation of a soliloquy from Macbeth, Act V, scene v, lines 17-28. The lines are spoken by Macbeth and read as follows:
She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.
Notice how the student pairs the each line to a specific image or video.