Modern Shakespeare
Investigation
Today we started a new unit called modern Shakespeare. The whole unit is about bringing Shakespeare in to the modern world. The unit question is “How can we create a video presentation of a Shakespeare play that will appeal to modern day viewers”. For this unit we chose communicators because the unit helps students to look at new ways of interpreting old material in order to increase our understanding of it. Our final project is to make a video. We have to come up with a way to present Shakespeare’s work, like bringing it to the modern world somehow. To do this we are going to make a video, using modern techniques so that people can understand easily. My part for this unit is just to help to set up the video and other things since I’m in English b. I will not be reading, maybe I will have to. The materials are simple. Camera, computer, some tools for the skit are going to be used.
So the unit question is “How can we create a video presentation of a Shakespeare play that will appeal to modern day viewers”, and my understandings are we are going to test it and see if we can make it modern. The study of Shakespeare is important because he is kind of like a door to the modern literature, and without him, literature would not be a big deal in modern days. Plus, via Shakespeare, we can have a glimpse to their society, to his time.
I think this unit will just show me how everything changed through time and how it changes. Also, I think I’m going to learn a little bit of literature and Shakespeare himself. I don’t really know about Shakespeare because I studied only Russian and Mongolian Literature, and all I heard is that he is really good and he is a mastermind in literature. But I believe ill learn more about him.
I don’t have an answer to this unit but I’m kind of thinking about seeing what will come out of this unit, what will happen. I cannot answer this unit question because the question how is really hard to answer. Maybe it will not make a pretty good deal for the modern day viewers because taste matters. Everyone thinks differently and prefers different things. It actually depends on the viewers. But since we are doing it, I think it is going to be better for the viewers understand because the people who are making it (us) are also kind of modern, so we know what will modern day people will understand and what wont they understand.
These are the things that we have to research:
Video (editing)
TV shows (news)
Talk show
Background
Spark notes
Movie
Also, before i research i need to know some things about shakespeare and his vocabulary.
When i asked our classmates about shakespeare they said that his words are really hard to undrestand because the vocabulary is very old and it is hard to understand his plays because they have meanings hidden and many other reasons.
We chose tsolmons play, the Iris show which is kind of easy for me to understand, and my job is to do the make up and plan the clothes, settings also. we have teams, english a students are all in the play, the esl students are just helpinh them to make the video, people who are good at technology such as min jae has to work on the video and edit it.
Evaluation: Plan
I didnt have any problems with the plan, i did follow the plan, i tried a lot, but it had soem changes because some days, i just finished everything, but at the end, i failed following the plan because my printer stopped working, so i had to print it out on the day when i had to present it. but the over thing went very well...
So i wrote down all the changes.
