Purpose

Learners will create a digital story from the point of view of a fictional historical figure to demonstrate their knowledge and comprehension of a specific colony or settlement.

Description

Students will create a 4 minute video about an imagined historical figures' travels, daily experience, or life in one of the colonies or the following groups that teaches about that specific colony's potential, problems, culture, etc.:

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-Phoenician -Greek -Byzantine -Arab -Viking -Venetian	-Dutch -French -Belgian -Portuguese -German -Japanese

The project will be submitted as a publicly accessible video on Youtube.

Important: Video files or unapproved postings will not be accepted for grading.

Details (3 part assignment)

Project proposal

(1) Choose a time period and colony covered in the course.

• Examples: Phoenician Cadiz, Greek Syracuse,  Norse Dublin, 1700 Dutch Malacca, 1900 German Tanganyika ,etc.

(2) Choose (create)  an imagined person within that time period and colony.

• Examples: merchant, governor, farmer, priest, etc.

(3) Submit a 150-200 world proposal in the first half of the course (see schedule for due date.)MChoose (create)  an imagined person within that time period and colony.

• Must include a time period, colony, and character.
• Lay out how you plan to carry out your research.

Bibliography

Format:
        Bibliography citations should be in Chicago Style Format:>   https://libguides.nvcc.edu/ChicagoTurabian

(3) Use  at least 10 sources,  (5 primary and 5 secondary) to research what the colony was like.

• Library research guide:
  
• Western Civ:  https://libguides.nvcc.edu/HIS101-102-Kincheloe
• World Civ:     https://libguides.nvcc.edu/c.php?g=1345814
• US History:    https://libguides.nvcc.edu/c.php?g=1345816

• Primary sources
  
• court records
• memoirs/autobiographies
• letters
• artifacts, etc.

• Secondary sources
• Scholarly journals
• Newspaper and other media and video archives
• Appropriate history-related websites and databases (not Wikipedia)
• Historical documentaries
• History textbooks

                       
                        Please contact a NOVA librarian if you have questions on locating sources.

Project Final submission

(4)  Research and determine what exactly you want to argue/portray in your project:

Think about details like ...

• What significance is the colony to the historical period?
  
• What is the character's role in society?
  
• What does that area/colony look like?
  
• Who and what did the character encounter?
• What kinds of hardships or challenges they experienced?
• What significant historical events they experienced, à la Forrest Gump?

(5) Write the script for your subject's 4 minute videos in the fictional character style often seen on YouTube and Instagram. Here are some tips:

• Introduce your subject and make the purpose of the video clear.
• Keep your subject’s class/station in life in mind when writing their script, e.g., a medieval serf wouldn’t have spoken in the same way as the Archbishop of Canterbury would have.
• You can be creative here and use slang or poor grammar if it makes sense for your historical figure; just be consistent.
• You can add additional actors to your video if you’d like your character to meet someone during the course of their day, as long as the person they meet makes sense within the historical context, and your focus remains primarily on your character.

(6) Choose  set(s) and gather props, costumes, video clips and/or images you would like to use in your videos.

        [Live action, animation, video compilation, etc. are all acceptable, but there must be dialogue or voice over to keep the audiences attention.]

(7) Review your script. If you are unsure of the pronunciation of any of the words or names in your script, please look them up via a google search prior to filming.

(8) Start filming/editing  your video.        (If using a smartphone, do not forget to turn your camera sideways!)

Here are some suggestions for software to use:         

• iMovie
• Windows Movie Maker
• Filmora
• Capcut
• Canva
• Camtasia
• WeVideo

(9) Edit your 4 minute video for quality, consistency, pacing, and adherence to the time length requirement.

(10) Upload your videos to YouTube.

• Important: All final project videos must be posted on YouTube. You must upload the link for the instructor to grade. Do not set your video to “private” or select any other access restrictions. It must be public for the instructor to grade.

(11) Submit your video link and script on Canvas.

Group Project  = If completed as a group project, NOTE:  

-The project must reflect the efforts of multiple people in both length of the video and depth of research.
-The videos can be filmed separately , but there should be consistency in style, graphics, and editing.

-Each student's grade will be assessed on the complete project, not just the sections completed by an individual student.  

Assessment:

Your Grade will be assessed as follows:

Project Proposal: (Meets Expectation/Needs Revisions) Resubmissions will be required if proposal is
                                                                                incomplete or historically problematic.

Bibliography:  (Meets Expectation/Needs Revisions) Resubmissions may be submitted if source list is
                                                                           incomplete or correct citations are not used.

Research Project: (A-F) assessed on 2 Criteria:
                                1- How effectively is the subject taught to the audience.
                                2- How historically accurate is the information.
                                3- How effectively do you maintain the audiences attention.

Examples of Video research project - Link (assignment is different, but some good examples)