Assignment Week 8 – Create a Movie Trailer for a Baroque Film | Section 1
In the assignment this week, you will demonstrate your understanding of course concepts by creating a movie trailer about Baroque art using screen capture software like Screencast-O-Matic or video editing software.
Your trailer will be comprised of a Baroque artwork that you would like to interpret and a series of still or moving images that you feel interpret the artwork. The images or clips you select can be from anything – an advertising image, a movie clip, a TikTok video, another artwork we haven’t discussed in class, etc. – as long as they illustrate one of the Baroque stylistic characteristics or qualities listed below that you feel are present in your artwork.
Your trailer does not have to tell a story; it can merely be a collection of videos and images that illustrate the stylistic characteristics you select. You can narrate your trailer, use sound that you feel accompanies the Baroque characteristic or quality, or you can let the image silently speak for itself.
Your movie trailer should have at least four images and/or video clips, including the original artwork your trailer is based on, and be about 30 seconds long.
Assignment Objectives
For this assignment, you will have to analyze an artwork from the course for its Italian and Baroque stylistic characteristics and then create a video that illustrates the stylistic characteristics. You will then explain how the video you create illustrates the various stylistic characteristics.
Follow the steps below to create your trailer.
Step 1
Find an artwork from this week’s module that you would like to interpret for its Baroque characteristics and qualities. This artwork will be your first “scene.”
Step 2
Find an additional three images and/or video clips whose imagery illustrates the Baroque characteristics and qualities in your artwork. Each clip/image should represent a different characteristic or quality from the list below. Your additional three images must be different than the course artwork you selected to begin your trailer and they don’t necessarily have to be artworks. For example, if you want to interpret the motion in Pozzo’s, Glorification of St. Ignatius, you could find a clip of birds flying or of a woman running, anything that would suggest motion.
Here are the characteristics and qualities from which you can choose.
Step 3
Create your trailer using screen capture or video editing software. Screen capture software, like the free Screencast-O-Matic (Links to an external site.) records what is on your screen. You can create a slide show of still images in Google Slides, present the slides, and record the presentation on your screen. If you want to incorporate video clips, play the video on your screen, and capture the video of your screen while you’re playing it. Here are instructions for using Screencast-O-Matic (Links to an external site.).
You can also use more complicated video editing software, if you have it and know how to use it.
Your trailer must have four “scenes,” or images/video clips, including the artwork that you’re basing your movie trailer on. Your first scene should be the artwork from the course that inspires your trailer and that illustrates three stylistic characteristics that you will display in the next scenes. The subsequent three images or clips you select can be from anything – an advertising image, a movie clip, a TikTok video, another artwork we haven’t discussed in class, etc. Each scene must illustrate one of the stylistic characteristics/qualities in the list above.
Step 4
Write a “script,” or essay, for your movie trailer. Again, the script doesn’t have to be narrative. It can merely analyze your four scenes for the stylistic characteristics.
In your script, describe how the course artwork that you selected illustrates the three stylistic characteristics you chose from the list. Then, describe each of the next three scenes and tell us what we are looking at. Finally, explain how each scene illustrates a Baroque stylistic characteristic or quality from the list and that is present in your selected artwork from the course.
You can use the script to narrate your movie trailer, if you know how to do that.
Your script should be at least 200 words long.
Step 5
Post your movie trailer to the Padlet. At 30 seconds, your movie trailer should be smaller than 25 MB, which is the maximum video file size for Padlet.
Step 6
Upload your movie trailer and script to this submission page. Here are some examples of movie trailers students did in the past.
Assignment 8 – Create a Movie Trailer for a Baroque Film
Assignment 8 – Create a Movie Trailer for a Baroque Film | |||||||
Criteria | Ratings | Pts | |||||
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeScene description |
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20 pts | |||||
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeScene stylistic characteristic |
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50 pts | |||||
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeArtwork stylistic characteristics |
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30 pts | |||||
Total Points: 100 |