1) Choose one partner
2) With your partner choose a theme that
represents the poem. Write it down in a thematic statement format.
3)
Choose a song, with or without words, that goes with the themes of the
poem, Rage Against the Dying of the Light
4) Decide on your symbolism and your
motif for the video
a. Will this be a Music Video or a Movie
Trailer
5) Outline your video scene by scene
a. Will your video be literal or more
abstract
6) Begin filming: make sure you are
using the symbolism and carry your motif throughout
7) Edit with music
8) Write a paragraph explaining the
video and what your symbolism represents and how (2-5 minutes)
9) Show in class
Example:
Thematic
statement: Often, our past regrets and mistakes aren’t realized until it is too
late, and we’d do anything to go back and make amends, even if that meant
fighting off death.
Song: Cats in the Cradle, by Cat Stevens- This
is a song about a father who spends his whole time working to gain financial
success, while at the same time ignoring his children and their emotional needs.
When he is older and dying and he wants to see his grown children and spend
time with them, they are now too busy to visit him. He is alone and wishes he
could go back to fix his mistakes.
Symbolism:
The color green will be used to represent his greed and lust for money. Yellow
will be used to show the light of his children and their innocence, but it will
also fade and morph into green as the video progresses to show how they’ve
acquired his greed.
Motif: There
will be blurred video footage to represent regret. When thinking of his past,
the footage will be blurry and difficult to see, exemplifying how hard it is
for him to look back on life and witness his own mistakes. While the song
plays, quotes from the poem will flash across the screen.
Outline of
the video: Movie trailer
Beginning:
Begin on the death bed of the father. Film in dreary colors of black and gray.
Show his loneliness by filming empty chairs and dying flowers. Film him
reaching out with old hands and then cut to a blurred film of his past where
his child was reaching out to him and he wasn’t there.
A) Materials and props needed:
B) Locations to film:
C) Time, date, and participants
Middle:
A)
B)
C)
End:
A)
B)
C)
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