Multimedia Assignment
This assignment is wide in scope and will vary according to your comfort level and talents with multimedia text creation.
Ideas
 | You may have access to a digital video camera and have a group of friends who are prepared to act out one scene from the play. |
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| You may want to perform one soliloquy on video yourself. |
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| You may want to create a collage of images that represent the theme of the play, or even a video montage of movie clips with similar themes. |
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| You could sketch some designs for costuming the play, or come up with a set design that you can scan and send as a jpeg or gif. |
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| Perhaps you would like to put Juliet's soliloquy to music and submit your performance as an audio file or over voice mail. |
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| You could create a PowerPoint presentation on the deaths of the main characters or some other aspect of the play. |
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| If you feel less comfortable with multimedia, you could complete some form of survey and submit your results in chart form. |
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| Draw a series of costumes to be used in the play. |
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| Make a storyboard representation for a TV programming, showing one scene from the play. |
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| Create a video montage on "young love". |
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| Re-enact a scene from the play and videotape it on digital video. |
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| Turn one scene into a cartoon. |
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| Create a set design for a theatre production. |
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| Create a poster advertising the play. |
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| Create a photo collage on some aspect of the play |
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| Set a soliloquy to music and sing it over the voice mail or as a real producer file. |
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| Write some original music for either the score for a movie version, or as background music for a particular scene. Identify the purpose for which the music will be used. |
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| Rewrite and perform a scene in modern day English |
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| Rewrite and perform the ending to the play |
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| Write and record entries from Juliet's diaries over the course of the play |
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| Rewrite and perform a condensed version of the entire play (no more than five minutes long). |
Get help! Your teacher will not be able to assist you with the technological aspects of your multi-media production. However, he or she will be able to give you some assistance in narrowing the scope of your assignment or giving you some suggestions if you meet a road block.
| your imagination |
| your technical skills and equipment |
Remember
| the topic must have something to do with Romeo and Juliet |
| the presentation must have a multimedia component |
| the presentation must be delivered via computer, fax, or voice mail |
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