Genocide+Survival+-+Theme+Illustration

If you choose to do Option 1, you, and possibly a partner, will create a short presentation that teaches your audience about the historical event at the center of your book along with one of its main themes. Your presentation should consist of:
 * //Option 1: Theme Illustration//**


 * historical photographs
 * facts and statistics about the genocide
 * short excerpts from the book
 * music of your choice
 * and possibly video clips.

It is up to you to find a key theme, passages from your novel that will support it, and a song that will add appropriate emotion. You may choose a theme that we’ve discussed in class or one that you’ve found on your own, but you must get approval from your teacher before you proceed with it. **When complete, your short video montage must include five to seven quotes, five to ten images, a title, and credit slides.**

Be sure to read through the grading rubric carefully before starting your work.

> --what sort of theme do you want to focus on? > --what important facts do you need to include in your presentation to ensure that your audience understands your presentation?
 * Planning Steps:**
 * 1) **Consider who your audience will be** and what you want to communicate to them. Answer the following questions on a sheet of paper in order to start the planning process:
 * 1) **Brainstorm possible theme ideas. Consider finding** **powerful quotes and compiling a list.**
 * 2) **Choose the theme that you feel to be the most interesting or easily communicated and supported with quotes from the novel.**
 * 3) **Get your theme idea approved by Ms. R.**
 * 4) **Locate a few more powerful quotes that support your theme so you have more than enough from which to choose.**
 * 5) **Start listening to music by browsing in these sites:**
 * http://ccmixter.org/tags
 * http://www.jamendo.com/en/
 * 1) **Narrow down your quote list to the best five to seven.** Ask yourself if you can easily see the significance of the quote and if a viewer who has not read the book would be able to understand the passage and its importance without any contextual clues.
 * 2) **Start viewing images and CITING ALL WEBSITES that include images you may want to use. Without citations, you are breaking copyright law and/or plagiarizing! Info on properly citing internet sources can be found on [|Purdue's Resource page].**
 * 3) **Save** any images that you think you might use to a file on the network and create a file system so that you know from which site each image came! (It is important that they are saved in the proper place so that any member of the group can access them - see step 8 for instructions.)
 * 4) Create a folder on the network for your project. Navigate to **Group\** **Reimer\2009GenocideProject\ and then go to** your period (FirstPeriod, SecondPeriod, ThirdPeriod, etc.) Once in the correct period’s folder make a new folder and give it a name that includes all the last names of the people in your group like so: **Harvey_Jeffers**
 * 5) **Check through all the books in the classroom for powerful images before going to internet resources.**
 * 6) **For Viewing images:**
 * [|US Holocaust Memorial Museum's photo archives]
 * [|maps and images]
 * Sudanese Image resources
 * http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/by-nc-2.0/ (try searching "Holocaust", "genocide" or "lost boys of Sudan" or "dinka" or "southern Sudan")
 * []
 * [|www.unitedstreaming.com] (try searching "genocide" or "holocaust")
 * If you are going to use Google Images, narrow your search to educational sites by typing the following in to the search window "holocaust site:edu" or "genocide site:edu"

Find **at least** **five, and no more than ten** that suit your theme and quotes.
 * NOTE:** If you are not able to find five images that you like, you may search Google images, but only **after** trying the above links


 * Movie Making Steps:**

__Open Windows Movie Maker:__
 * 1) Start Menu
 * 2) Programs
 * 3) Windows Movie Maker

__Windows Movie Maker (WMM) – Some important features:__
 * 1) Movie Tasks (left side) – perform tasks in this area (capture video, edit movie, etc.)
 * 2) Collections (middle area) – all relevant files are stored here (images, video, audio)
 * 3) Preview pane (right side) – you can preview your video in this area
 * 4) Storyboard/Timeline (bottom) – you will create your video in these areas

__Import Images:__
 * 1) Click on the “Import pictures” hyperlink under “Capture Video”
 * 2) Navigate to **Group\Reimer\2009GenocideProject\Your Period\Your Project**
 * 3) Select the images
 * 4) Click import
 * 5) The images are now **stored** in the Collections folder (*the images are not part of your video until they are placed on the Storyboard – see below, #4)

__Place Images on the Storyboard:__
 * 1) Click, hold and drag the image to the storyboard
 * 2) Preview pane (right side): preview video
 * 3) Click on Show Timeline (bottom) to edit the length of each clip (click and drag the clip)

__Edit Movie:__ i. Choose a transition from the folder (middle area) and preview by clicking on the play button in the preview pane ii. Click, hold and drag the transition in between slides on the Storyboard
 * 1) Click on “Edit Movie”
 * 2) “Make titles or credits” allows you to add text to your video
 * 3) “View video transitions” allows you to create transitions between each slide

__Save Music Files__: First, Think about possible music selections by researching music online, going through your personal music libraries, etc. You will need to find a copy of the song you’d like to use that you **OWN**. **The music MUST be on a CD. If you’ve purchased it off iTunes, you will need to get it off your iPod and onto a CD BEFORE you can use it.** THEN:
 * 1) If you do not have music files saved on a laptop, please bring in a CD that contains the files you would like to copy
 * 2) Open Windows Media Player
 * 3) Place the CD in your drive
 * 4) Go to Tools/Options and click on the Copy Music tab
 * 5) Click on the Change button, navigate to the **Group\Reimer\2009GenocideProject\Your Period\Your Project** folder and click OK
 * 1) Click on the “Copy from CD” button on the toolbar (on the left)
 * 2) Make sure there is a check mark next to the track you want to copy
 * 3) Click on the “Copy Music” button on the top toolbar
 * 4) The following widow appears...check the box that says “Do Not Protect Content” and click OK

__Import Audio or Music:__
 * 1) Click on the “Import audio or music” hyperlink under “Capture Video”
 * 2) Navigate to the folder where the music files are saved
 * 3) The music file is now saved in your “Collections” folder
 * 4) Click on the “Show Timeline” button
 * 5) Click, hold and drag the file to the timeline area that says “Audio/music”
 * 6) Drag the entire music file to place it exactly where you want the music to start
 * 7) Edit the length of the music file by dragging it from the right side

__Part III: Save as a Movie File:__

> **Group\Reimer\2009GenocideProject\Your Period\Your Project**, click Next:
 * 1) File, Save Movie File...
 * 2) Choose **Recordable CD (not My computer)**...and click Next
 * 3) Type in a file name that includes the word “final”, then create a path to your project in
 * 1) Choose Best Quality for playback on my computer, click Next to save: