Lens Project
START by reading the assigned TASK: assignment, checklist & rubric
Step 2: Choose any pop culture / mainstream VISUAL text – Disney movie, fairy tale, music video, TV show, film, ad, PSA...
Step 3: Choose ONE literary lens you can comfortably use to analyze this text.
NOTE you can interchange steps 2 and 3 - start with lens, choose text, or vice versa, whatever works for yo
Step 2: Choose any pop culture / mainstream VISUAL text – Disney movie, fairy tale, music video, TV show, film, ad, PSA...
Step 3: Choose ONE literary lens you can comfortably use to analyze this text.
NOTE you can interchange steps 2 and 3 - start with lens, choose text, or vice versa, whatever works for yo
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Step 4: Select and take a still image / screenshot of some part of the text which represents what you will be talking about to use as a visual reference. Pay attention to image quality. See this tutorial on how to do a Google image search for a high resolution image. NOTE: Even though this video is about finding images for a different project, you can still use the general idea of the advanced search and especially the resolution and format/size/shape sections.
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Step 5: Consult the models:
Step 6: WRITE YOUR SCRIPT - Plan your analysis using the checklist; draft it focusing on analysis and rhetorical devices to engage the reader. You need four (4) paragraphs of content, and to deal with ALL three (3) of the components of the lens. You are aiming for 450-500 words for a three-minute video. Practice reading this aloud so that you can really make it sound like a talk and get your narration to time - between 2 minutes 50 seconds and 3 minutes 15 seconds. Get this draft peer edited and REVISE. Revise especially for how you sound.
Step 7: MAKE YOUR SLIDE SHOW - Create four (4) slides total: a title slide and three (3) content slides that focus on the three aspects of the lens, the last slide needs to be the concept that most closely aligns with your concluding remarks, or your overall message. These slides should reflect main concepts in bullet point form – remember you’re narrating this – so keep the slides clean. You can afford to use different wording on the slides than in your script. YOUR ONE IMAGE needs to figure on EACH page. Your slide show must have a consistent design scheme. Get your slide show peer edited and REVISE.
Step 8: RECORD YOUR SCREENCAST – first, practice again reading it aloud and making notes on your draft for pauses, emphasis etc. Then do the recording. See the tutorial I made on how to use Stream (in Teams) to screencast / screenrecord your slide show. Pay attention to production values such as voice and sound quality, image quality, and engageability. You have the advantage of having notes, your script – but you CANNOT sound like you’re reading from them. (Power Point does have this feature, but here I show you how to do it using Teams and Stream which everyone has at school).
Step 9: Compress/download the video and then upload it to the Teams assignment.
- Sauve's final video (3:10)
- Some other examples kinda sorta... from the web: Shrek and Marxism; Post-Colonial lens and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and The Tempest; and for fun listen to Russell Brand unpack the WAP music video with Cardi B & Megan Thee Stallion. Is it a Feminist Masterpiece Or P*rn? It's long (17 min.) but very interesting
Step 6: WRITE YOUR SCRIPT - Plan your analysis using the checklist; draft it focusing on analysis and rhetorical devices to engage the reader. You need four (4) paragraphs of content, and to deal with ALL three (3) of the components of the lens. You are aiming for 450-500 words for a three-minute video. Practice reading this aloud so that you can really make it sound like a talk and get your narration to time - between 2 minutes 50 seconds and 3 minutes 15 seconds. Get this draft peer edited and REVISE. Revise especially for how you sound.
- See Sauve's written final script
Step 7: MAKE YOUR SLIDE SHOW - Create four (4) slides total: a title slide and three (3) content slides that focus on the three aspects of the lens, the last slide needs to be the concept that most closely aligns with your concluding remarks, or your overall message. These slides should reflect main concepts in bullet point form – remember you’re narrating this – so keep the slides clean. You can afford to use different wording on the slides than in your script. YOUR ONE IMAGE needs to figure on EACH page. Your slide show must have a consistent design scheme. Get your slide show peer edited and REVISE.
- See Sauve's Power Point slideshow
Step 8: RECORD YOUR SCREENCAST – first, practice again reading it aloud and making notes on your draft for pauses, emphasis etc. Then do the recording. See the tutorial I made on how to use Stream (in Teams) to screencast / screenrecord your slide show. Pay attention to production values such as voice and sound quality, image quality, and engageability. You have the advantage of having notes, your script – but you CANNOT sound like you’re reading from them. (Power Point does have this feature, but here I show you how to do it using Teams and Stream which everyone has at school).
Step 9: Compress/download the video and then upload it to the Teams assignment.