Thesis statements can be confusing, especially if you haven't been required to write them before for your papers. Watch the video below for a basic explanation of what a thesis statement is and why thesis statements are important in your papers.
Hey class,
Here's how the video files I give to you on Monday will look. As you notice, it's simply one big video file with all of your takes combined into one. The only thing I've done is added the green screen effect that you group choose.
On Monday, I'll set you up with a video explaining how to use Windows Movie Maker, and your group will have to edit your footage into a sleek looking movie clip.
Hey Class,
I'm sure you have a dozen questions about the Macbeth paper! Hopefully, this video will answer most of them.
As for due dates...lets try for a solid rough draft by next Wednesday, peer-review on Wednesday, and final papers due on the Friday before spring break.
If need be we can push it back to the Monday we return from spring break...but lets be honest, no one wants something hanging over them during spring break, right?
Hey Class,
One of the challenges we will face when filming our adaption of Macbeth is filming landscape scenes, castle scenes, battle scenes, etc. One way to get around this problem is to utilize stock footage from the internet. Here's an example of how to build a Macbeth trailer using such footage:
Now, we cannot just grab videos at random, recombine them, and post them online. That's plagiarism. What we need to do is create a works cited page of the sources we used. Remember, we use MLA style formating in our class.
The first step is to document where you found the clips you used. I keep this simple and use a format like this:
The next step is to realize that several of these clips on YouTube come from movies and are not shot by the people who uploaded the clips. For example, take the last item on the list above "Lady Macbeth.mov" This is a scene from the Rupert Gold's version of Macbeth (2010), and we need to cite the original film in our Works Cited page.
Once we know where the clip comes from, we need to find information about that original source. In this case, it's relatively easy to find thanks to IMDB.com. Here's the link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1570337/
So, the entry for the Works Cited page would come from the IMDB link, but we would list at the very end the URL for the YouTube video. Here's what the entry would look like:
Gold, Rupert, dir. "Macbeth." Great Performances. PBS, 2010. Film. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d_paIkhBr>
I hope that makes sense! We'll work on works cited pages towards the end of this project.
