Friday, April 11, 2014

III Liceo - Merchant of Venice Spring Break Project


Project for Merchant of Venice

Choose one of the following options.  Complete your project for Wednesday, April 30th. 
 

1.      Using lines from the play to “hook” a potential audience, create a film trailer for a new film adaptation of The Merchant of Venice.

a.       Your video must be 3-5 minutes.  Try to include as much imagery as possible.

b.      You are free to be creative with this.  Either you, yourself (or your friends) can interpret the characters, or you can use images/video from the web to create your trailer.

c.       You must choose music you feel is appropriate to the tone and theme of your trailer.

 

 

2.      Create a casting director’s book. For each of the characters in The Merchant of Venice, develop a description of each character, qualities an actor needs to portray that character, and potential actors for the role and their acting credits. For each of the potential actors, write a rationale citing reasons that actor would be the best for that role.

a.       Please create a mini-book in which you dedicate a single page to each character.  The page must contain the following.

                                                              i.      An image of the actor.

                                                            ii.      Their acting credits (most important films they have been in, 2-3)

                                                          iii.      A brief description (2-3 sentences) of the character they are assigned for the play.

                                                          iv.      Your rationale for why you, as the director, feel these actors would be best for the roles. (4-5 sentences for each character/actor)

 

*You must prepare a 5-7 minute presentation that introduces your project and explains it.

*Imagery counts a great deal for this project, so try to make your projects as visually engaging and organized as possible.

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