English 9, Dunn, Macbeth Creative Piece.
#English #9 #Dunn https://docs.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/document/d/1-pnOUPpPuu17uYTmjy34BgeUEwvvA8K9H5R0i0d3lsI/edit
This video is intended to portray the evolution and progression of the character Lady Macbeth, from Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The video illustrates the hubris with which she is originally presented in the play, and the way in which her character crumbles with each murder she or her husband commit. Throughout the play, the woman gains a sense of humanity which she lacks at the outset. The cost of losing her strong facade, however, is the guilt she is saddled with. In the video, her character simulated through her posture. With each name that flashes on the screen, another life is taken, and Lady Macbeth is crushed, until, completely deflated, she is gone.
To achieve the silhouette effect, I used a set of broad construction lights, an unused bed sheet, and a startling amount of duct tape. My mother, Arden Kass, was drafted as Lady Macbeth. Between each shot, I would model for her the poses she would go through to pantomime the character. Some difficulty arose in the editing stage, and as a result the final video is not nearly as elegant as the original footage. I have been instructed to tell any viewers that my mothers is not, in fact, as wide as iMovie ’09 shows her to be.
At the outset, supplies were hard to find. After prepping to begin filming, the camera broke, and the rest of the process was completed using an iPhone. Unfortunately, iPhones are a bit of a pain. Next, the tape, the sheets and the wall refused to cooperate. In between each shot, much time was spent re-hanging the sheet, re-applying the tape, and even re-filming shots in which the sheet fell. The lights nearly burnt a hole in the floor, and the sheet was discovered to be spotted with large, mysterious black spots. Finally, the video was shot in a doorway, so I was forced to use the vertical video function of my phone. Apple products are not nearly as compatible as you might think, and the final movie is irreparably distorted.
This project is certainly as dramatic, intense and communicative as I hoped it would be, if a little poorly edited. A good first attempt at silhouette filmmaking
Given more time, I would find a way to tile the video, so that I could use it without distortion. I would also put a little more time into the editing, as the transitions are a little funky.
I was very impressed by the creativity of the other projects. People saw Macbeth in a very different light from me.
I learned, unfortunately, that I am capable of handing in a project where I’m not 100% proud of the aesthetics of the final copy. I hope this doesn’t have too much of an impact on future projects.
The following was a project for a 9th grade English class, using creativity and imagination to extend a quote analysis into an engaging piece that shows that character journey of Lady Macbeth. Lady Macbeth is an inhumane controlling power-hungry woman that wants to leave her gender, but after King Duncan is murdered, it turns her into a frail and broken self-loathing human being. This is shown through the project I decided to do, using clay and sterling silver to create one of a kind pendants that represented the character change of Lady Macbeth throughout the entire play.
PENDANT DESCRIPTION
To create the pendants, I had to do many things before actually producing the finished product. I needed to plan out nine emotions that I could portray. I made a list of parts in the play where Lady Macbeth had a prominent emotion. Later, I researched the relationship between colors and emotions and what colors represented which emotion. The colored sphere in each pendant represents a different emotion. After that, I had to create the pendants, so I used clay for that. I made sterling silver hooks, and then after the pendants were dry, I reinforced them with epoxy and added gloss glaze.
I think one huge difficulty in this project was that it was extremely time-consuming. The pendants alone took me around ten hours in total to complete, and that’s not including the display. I did spend a lot of time on them. I think that next time, I could easily start earlier if I didn’t want to do so much work at one time.
I am most proud of the fact that no one else had my kind of project. I also am proud of sticking with it even if it did take a long time. I hope that everyone else enjoyed my project as much as I did.
If I were given the chance to do this project over, I would 100% go with the idea of the pendants. My original ideas weren’t as great. I originally wanted to do a pop-up book, but I thought that with all the people that were touching it, it wouldn’t last very long. It would also take most likely more time than the pendants did.
My colleagues also did creative projects to represent the character development of Macbeth or Lady Macbeth. I think that they were very well done. A lot of them made me see the character development in a whole other light that I hadn’t seen before. Also, some of them pointed things out that I had never noticed. It made me realize how creative we all are, and how differently our mind works from the rest of us.
Through this project, I realized that I can most definitely complete something even if it seems impossible, if I put my mind to it. I also learned a bunch of different creative ways to represent a storyline that I could use to my advantage in the future.
This canvas is
the creative portion of my Macbeth essay. There are many elements that go into
this creative portion, it goes through what Lady Macbeth and Macbeth both
experience throughout the story together. While the killing of Duncan shook both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, they
reacted to their newfound power differently, causing their relationship to
shift. They both went through changes in the story and this
canvas is demonstrating the shift in the relationship. The project went through
many versions before getting to what it is now. I new I wanted to show that
they switched roles in the relationship so I went to drawing them in quadrants
and switching places on the bottom from the top. Then I wanted to add branches
creeping in at the corners. The branches went from being drawn to being real
quickly. Then I ditched the quadrants all together and essentially came up with
this. I went through many problems with the gluing of the branches to the
canvas and solved that by cutting them and gluing them back together. I am most
proud of the way it turned out I didn't expect it to turn out this way and as I
was putting it together I fell in love with it more and more. If I were to do
this over I would use spray paint instead of brushes because I don't like the streaks
that were left in the white background. I learned that this story is copied
many times even now and I learned many things about my classmates from what
they chose as their creative piece. I learned how many things I do
subconsciously that turned out correct for what I was trying to portray. This
project taught me to appreciate how everyone thinks and expresses themselves
and the diverseness of our stream.
For making the poster I first mapped out where I was going to put everything. Then I made rough sketches of each of my drawings in pencil. I finalized them, and added the quotes. I like to draw, so the drawing part of the project was pretty easy. It did take awhile to draw illustrations for all five scenes though. I also had to research Shakespearian clothing, and decide what I wanted each of characters to look like. By doing some research, and allowing a lot of time to be put into this project, I got it done.
I am most proud of the drawings a did, because I thought that they were pretty good, and creative. I also liked my use of symbolism, by using the color red. If I could change anything I would probably add backgrounds to each of the drawings to make it look better. I could also put my thesis statement on the board so that people would know what it is, and could see how the quotes relate to it.
My colleagues had very creative projects. I really enjoyed seeing them . A lot of them had thesis statements that were similar to mine. It was interesting to compare their quote choices for their thesis’s to mine.
I learned that I like to draw for projects, and that my drawings are pretty good. I also enjoy doing it, which makes the project better.
I know your inside, you're feeling so hollow
Macbeth was the worthy Thane of Glamis
And it's a hard pill for you to swallow
“For brave Macbeth- well he deserves that name”
But if I fall for you, I'll never recover
But now he’s Thane of Cawdor, and next in line for King
If I fall for you, I'll never be the same
Once he began chasing power, he wouldn’t be the same
I really wanna love somebody
I really want to kill somebody
I really wanna dance the night away
I really want to take their life away
I know we're only half way there
We could be king and queen, so come on
But you can take me all the way, you can tak e me all the way
Let’s do it today, Let’s do it today
I really wanna touch somebody
I really want to end somebody
I think about you every single day
King Duncan’s standing in our way
I know we're only half way there
If we kill him we’ll have it all
But you can take me all the way, you can take me all the way
So let’s kill him today, let’s kill him today
You're such a hard act for me to follow
So Macbeth, he killed King Duncan
Love me today don't leave me tomorrow, yeah
But had a hard time getting over it, yeah
But if I fall for you, I'll never recover
“Methought I heard a voice cry, sleep no more
If I fall for you, I'll never be the same
“Macbeth does murder sleep!”, and became King next day
I really wanna love somebody
I really want to kill somebody
I really wanna dance the night away
I really want to take their life away
I know we're only half way there
In order to keep my power I’ll
But you can take me all the way, you can take me all the way
Do this every day, do this ever day
I really wanna touch somebody
I really want to keep on killing
I think about you every single day
“Returning would be as tedious as go oe’r”
I know we're only half way there
Because of that I won’t stop here
But you can take me all the way, you can take me all the way
I’ll be killing every day, killing every day
Whoa, whoa, whoa oh oh oh
He’s becoming, he’s becoming, he’s becoming a tyrant
Whoa, whoa, whoa oh oh oh
He’s going, he’s going, he’s going mad
I don't know where to start, I'm just a little lost
Soon an uprising begins, led by Malcolm and Macduff
I wanna feel like we never gonna ever stop
Against “this tyrant whose sole name blsiters our tongues”
I don't know what to do, I'm right in front of you
The walls are closing in, Macbeth’s not not panicking
Asking you to stay, you should stay, stay with me tonight, yeah
“Direness, like to my thoughts cannot once start, me!”
I really wanna love somebody
I really want to kill somebody
I really wanna dance the night away
Anybody who is in my way
I know we're only half way there
Everyone is after me
But you can take me all the way, you can take me all the way
But I’m not dying today, not dying today
I really wanna touch somebody
I really want to keep my power
I think about you every single day
I don’t want it to go away
I know we're only half way there
But Macduff is coming for me and
But you can take me all the way, you can take me all the way
On this world I might not stay, on this world I might not stay
Whoa, whoa, whoa oh oh oh
Macduff is, getting near, adding to Macbeth’s despair
Whoa, whoa, whoa oh oh oh
The final, battle ensues, and Macbeth will lose
You can take me all the way, you can take me all the way
His tyranny ended today, his madness ended todayThis project is all about finding Macbeth's transition from loyal, dedicated lord to a cold blooded murderer in different songs.
What was your process like in crafting the creative portion of this project?
I put a lot of work into this project, finding the songs, then taking them apart and piecing them to fit my thesis. Sometimes it was easy, and sometimes it was really difficult, there were times when I would get distracted and watch some TV or talk to my friends, but when i came back my mind was fresh and I was able to get the work done.
What difficulties did you encounter in doing this project? How did you overcome them?
The main difficulty I had was probably picking what I would do, I had the idea of trees and grass, really connecting to nature and his growth. However I didn’t have time to get to the store, so instead of going at six-o'clock on a Saturday and staying up all night to finish it, I told myself I would spend Sunday working on it. Unfortunately I work on Sunday’s, from 10-12 I figured I would do it in the afternoon. Little did I know there was a meeting that many parents were going to, so I stayed until three watching their kids. When I got home I did thorough thinking, I didn’t think it was rational to go at 4 and work on it for about 4 hours then do the rest of my homework. I decided on a soundtrack because I’m good at working stories into music.
What are you most proud of in this project?
I’m proud of all of I guess, it wasn’t what I really wanted to do, but I think I did a good job and worked very hard on it. I’m proud of my final product because I honestly thought that I wouldn’t have anything, so I’m glad I’ve brought something in not only thats good, but something that I like. I don’t love it, there are some improvements that should be done, but i think I gave it my best and the final product may not look like I put work into it, but I did, and I think I did my best
What would you change/do differently if given the chance?
Time- Management. Thats something I really, really, really, need to work on.
What did you learn from your colleagues' presentations/projects?
That they all did really good projects and put time into them, I also learned that some of my classmates have secret talents. I had no idea Des could draw, I thought he was all running, but it turns out he is crazy good!
What did you learn about yourself as a result of doing this project?
That I need to manage my time more, and work with Ms. Dunn/ Sasha for guidance and not do it all myself.
a. What is this project about? This project is about Macbeth’s rise and fall of his life and loyalty. Macbeth was a trustworthy man that let his dark desires change his life, he was a clean hearted man that over the time his heart grew of power and ambition making bad decision and at the end he was filled with regret.
b. What was your process like in crafting the creative portion of this project?
My idea for the first time of making this project was making a collage of Macbeth’s life of how it went from a rise to a downfall, but then to make it much better and interesting I chose to make a comic with the quotes from each act and have a little side story so the reader could understand what’s going on with Macbeth’s life.
c. What difficulties did you encounter in doing this project? How did you overcome them?
Some difficulties that I encountered doing this projects was finding the pictures from the same play but I overcame this idea by changing my idea of the collage into a comic with quotes and a little more information to make a story.
d. What are you most proud of in this project? Why?
What i’m proud of making the project in one day not because I was procrastinating but I just got the date that it was due wrong, also because some of my friends thought the comic was really good due to the fact that i read comics I must had picked up some ideas on how to make the comics, I’m proud of this also because it’s my first comic project that I made and most of my friends thought it was really great.
e. What would you change/do differently if given the chance?
What I would change if I do this project again would be making the story longer or making an actual collage.
f. What did you learn from your colleagues' presentations/projects?
What I learned was that they had a lot of brilliant ideas on how to do this also they kind of knew what to do since the beginning of the project so they were very prepared for this.
g. What did you learn about yourself as a result of doing this project?
This is the creative extension of a Macbeth quote analysis. This is a machinima made in minecraft that shows the journey of Macbeth and how Macbeth started as a loyal subject to King Duncan, but when the weïred sisters told him he would be king, Lady Macbeth convinced him to kill Duncan and he lost himself in the murder.
To create this I had to build all of the sets and find “skins,” or costumes, that went with each character. I then had to use my screen capture software to record the different scenes and then edit them together and voice over them.
One problem I had was that I did not have screen capture software on my school laptop so I had to use my home computer and only work from there. Another problem I had was that I had finished recording about half of my scenes and I realized that the texturepack, something that changes how the game looks, was wrong. I had to re-record everything and start from scratch.
I am really happy with the way it turned out. Building the sets was fun and they looked great on camera. Minecraft is a game of blocks so some things are not easy to replicate, you have to be creative.
If I had time I would redo one, or two scenes that I think could be better. There was one where it was daytime when it was supposed to be night, and another where I was going to do a voice but forgot and had two voices for one character.
From seeing my classmates’ projects I realized that there were many ways to creatively represent our papers and that there are other things that I could have done when I did not know what to do.
Reflection
The small orbs on the top of each box were painted with specific colors. I referred to a mood-ring chart to show Lady Macbeth's various emotions throughout the play ranging from stormy and passionate to lonely and paranoid. I set the boxes in descending order by height to visually show her downfall, and because the boxes had lids and could be opened, I put the quotes that I analyzed for that specific body paragraph in each box and I was done.
The process for my project was actually rather timely; it only took about an hour and a half to finish and I did so the night before with ample time left in the night for me to sleep. The only problems I encountered during the creation of this project were gluing pieces in the wrong order and having to reorder things, mixing colors to properly coincide with those on the mood chart, printing problems, and actually getting my project to school. However, there were very few learning walls and mind-blocks for me to experience.
In my classmates projects, I saw a deep thoughtfulness throughout. The artistic qualities of my classmates and the ability to be as innovative as some were was extremely noticeable. I appreciate their hard work and I feel that there was a level 'playing-field'. No projects were absolutely utterly mind-blowingly incredible, but no projects were dull, drab, or pointless.
For my project I chose to do a continuation of my written piece. In my written piece I talk about how Macbeth was not always a bad guy. At the beginning of the book he was a good person. It was only through being provoked and triggered into changing that Macbeth changed his personal traits and became such an evil person. To represent this I started by making Macbeth's head. The head that I made is similar to the head that is shown at the end of the Macbeth movie. Then to show all of Macbeth's triggers I made small sculptures of the triggers and placed them on Macbeth's head to symbolize the fact that Macbeth was only taking action based on what other people inspired him to do, not because his own brain told him that these actions were okay. For Act 1, the trigger that I chose was Lady Macbeth; for Act 2, the trigger was the crown and the role of kingship; for Act 3, the trigger was the Weïrd Sisters; for Act 4, the trigger was Malcolm; and for Act 5, the trigger was the kingdom and everything that comes with being king (wealth, power, followers, etc.). The hardest part of this project was coming up with the idea. Once I had the idea the project was relatively easy. The only trouble I had was deciding which things I would pick as the triggers for each act, and also making the sculptures. If I could do this project again, I would put more work into making the sculptures better.