Shakespeare Digitally

February, 2014 BAM

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What are the skills kids need for today and tomorrow?

What are the best ways to teach those skills?

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Why Shakespeare and Technology Three Big Trends in Technology Technical Stuff and Ethos Stuff Ideas and Technologies: Performance-Based Approach Production-Based Approach

Why Shakespeare and Technology

Shakespeare is NOT important

Shakespeare can be powerful

Shakespeare as a tool for growth

Linguistic Growth Cognitive Growth Emotional Growth Social Growth Shakespeare offers language and situations can be amplifiers and extenders for kids-linguistically, cognitively, emotionally, and socially. Literary Legos

Shakespeare and Technology as a Tool for Growth

Kids Make Shakespeare with Tools In Authentic Shakespeare Ways In Authentic 21st Century Ways

Big Trends in Technology

Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Media / Maker Movement Participatory Culture Remix and Appropriation

 DIY Media
Participatory Culture Remix and Appropriation

DIY Media

DIY Ethos
Allows ordinary people to pursue what had hitherto been professional tasks. Its the empowerment of non-specialistsfrom home improvement to media production.
(Knobel and Lankshear, 2010)

DIY Shakespeare
Performance-based approach is all about the DIY ethos. Giving kids the tools to do Shakespeare.

Streetcar Named Desire, Scene 10

It is a few hours later that night. Blanche has been drinking pretty steadily since Mitch left. She has dragged her wardrobe to the center of the bedroom. It hangs open with flowery dresses thrown across it. As the drinking. As the drinking and packing went on, a mood of hysterical exhilaration came over her and she has decked herself out in a somewhat soiled and crumpled white satin evening gown and a pair of scuffed silver slippers with brilliants set in their heels.

Macbeth Act 5, Scene 1

Enter Lady Macbeth with taper

Now she is placing rhinestone tiara on her head before the mirror of the dressing table and murmuring excitedly as if to a group of spetral admirers.

 DIY Media

Participatory Culture
Remix and Appropriation

Participatory Culture
Specatory Cultural Few media providers Strict control of stories Participatory Culture Citizens provide media Citizens take control of the stories and characters.

Participatory Culture

1.5 Million Hours of Programming

On Major TV networks from 1948-2008

1.5 Million Hours of Programming

On Major TV networks from 1948-2008

On YouTube from JulyDecember 2008

Shakespeare as Participatory Culture

 DIY Media Participatory Culture

Remix and Appropriation

Some Examples of Contemporary Remix Practices

http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=-ek9CchVpWE

http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=dnhKPw2NXIw

http://www.archive.org/details/DjDang erMouse-TheGreyAlbum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtE H6wZXPA4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0 AGdFic

Remix
Remix means to take cultural artifacts and manipulate them into new kinds of creative blends.

Food

Tandoor Taco Spring, Texas

Tandoori Burger New York, New York

Tandoor Pizza Sunrise, Florida

Music

Remix as a Lens

Shakespeare as Remix

Shakespeare as Remixer

Remix is how Shakespeare has gotten done for the last 400 years Remix is what people do today with Shakespeare.

Guttenberg Parenthesis
Sampling and remixing; borrowing and reshaping; appropriating and recontextualizingaccurately characterize the way that some university students now think they should write academic essays. Butthose same key terms accurately characterize the way plays were achieved, and by which plays were treated in the Elizabethan popular theatre (Pettitt, 2007).

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) 2011

Thomas Friedman on Mashups, Globalization and Education

Lets say you work for CNN as a computer specialist. Its very likely you will be asked to integrate different kinds of content with different kinds of technology platforms. If schools can actually produce people who are good synthesizers, theyre going to be more effective and innovative workers...[Kids] get mash-ups. They do it naturally. And today, he who mashes best will mash most and be wealthiest
--Thomas Friedman
From School Administrator Feb, 2008

Shakespeare and 21st Century Literacies

DIY Media Participatory Culture Remix and Appropriation

Ideas and Technologies

Tools
Text Audio Comics Video Machinima Stop Motion Performance

The Wall

Text: Copy and Paste

Hamlet Act 3, Scene 2

Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on. Soft! now to my mother. O heart, lose not thy nature; let not ever The soul of Nero enter this firm bosom: Let me be cruel, not unnatural: I will speak daggers to her, but use none; My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites; How in my words soever she be shent, To give them seals never, my soul, consent!

Thriller
it's close to midnight and something evil's lurking in the dark Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes You're paralyzed 'Cause this is thriller, thriller night And no one's gonna save you from the beast about strike You know it's thriller, thriller night You're fighting for your life inside a killer, thriller tonight You hear the door slam and realize there's nowhere left to run You feel the cold hand and wonder if you'll ever see the sun You close your eyes and hope that this is just imagination, girl! But all the while you hear the creature creeping up behind You're out of time

To Beat it or not to Be By Michele C. Tis now the very witching time of night. Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart. When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it. Contagion to this world, now could I drink hot blood-You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes Never, my soul, consent You're out of time!

Out, damned spot! out, I say!--One: two: why, then, 'tis time to do't.--Hell is murky!--Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?--Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him. The thane of Fife had a wife: where is she now?-What, will these hands ne'er be clean?--No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with this starting.

"There must be some kind of way out of here," Said the joker to the thief, "There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief. Businessman they drink my wine, Plowman dig my earth None will level on the line, nobody offered his word, hey" "No reason to get excited," The thief, he kindly spoke "There are many here among us Who feel that life is but a joke But you and I, we've been through that And this is not our fate So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late" All along the watchtower Princes kept the view While all the women came and went Barefoot servants, too

All Along the Castle Halls" by Lisa White

There must be some way out of here; will these hands ne'er be clean? There's too much confusion here; I can't get no relief. Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, fie. What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? There are many here among us who think that life is but a joke. But you and I, we've been through that; and that is not our fate. Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? Fie, my lord, fie. So let us not talk falsely now; because the hour is getting late. Here's the smell of all the blood still; I can't get no relief.

Your turn

JULIET: Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds, Towards Phoebus' lodging! Such a wagoner As Phaeton would whip you to the west And bring in cloudy night immediately. Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night, That runaway's eyes may wink, and Romeo Leap to these arms untalked of and unseen. Lovers can see to do their amorous rites By their own beauties; or, if love be blind

Audio

Audio
ACT 3, SCENE 3 of Macbeth, A park near the palace.

Enter three Murderers wait to kill Banquo and Fleance. The First and Second Murderer were not expecting the Third Murderer. First Murderer : But who did bid thee join with us? Third Murderer : Macbeth. Second Murderer : He needs not our mistrust, since he delivers Our offices and what we have to do To the direction just. First Murderer : Then stand with us. The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day.

Third Murderer : Hark! I hear horses.

You can see a video demonstration of students doing the Foley work for this scene at http://www.folger.edu/remix/

Audio: iBard

www.folger.edu/remix

Other Foley-able scenes

ROMEO Give me that mattock and the wrenching iron...

Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death, Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth, Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open, And, in despite, I'll cram thee with more food!
Opens the tomb PARIS This is that banish'd haughty Montague, That murder'd my love's cousin, with which grief, It is supposed, the fair creature died.

GRAVEDIGGER (digging grave) [Sings] A pickaxe, and a spade, a spade, For and a shrouding sheet: O, a pit of clay for to be made For such a guest is meet. Throws up another skull HAMLET There's another: why may not that be the skull of a lawyer?

Foley
Lear: The Blinding of Gloucester

Other Foley Techniques

Marching army: boots on hard surface (repeated, echo, looped) Shovels: spoons in cups of sand or pebbles (change the pitch or speed) Airplane engine: fan starting and running Helicopter: opening and closing an umbrella very fast Bones breaking: cracking celery or carrots Walking in snow: patting corn starch Large person or animal eating: chewing watermelon or apple Boiling water: blowing bubbles in water with straw Plucking/ripping hair: tearing a piece of paper

CCMixter.org

Soungle.com

Cinna: dreamt to-night that I did feast with Caesar, And things unlucky charge my fantasy: I have no will to wander forth of doors, Yet something leads me forth. Enter Citizens

First Citizen What is your name?

http://youtu.be/iWwja7XAdEw

Representational and Abstract

Representational: Art that attempts to represent external reality Abstract: Art that does not imitate or directly represent external reality

Abstract Audio

http://youtu.be/DQ6q9BYJBmg

http://youtu.be/5aHfO1zaahE

Abstract Audio Project

Select a passage from the play Chose a leading line (e.g. When the hurlyburly's done/when the battles lost and won)

Use about the lines from the passage, feel free to reorganize them
Mix in the sounds from something nonfiction (news broadcast) and something fictional (movie clip) that extend and amplify the themes of the leading line.

Archive.org

Video

Video
Mashups and Remixes

Macbeth Remix Romeo and Juliet Mashup

http://youtu.be/RhJEwM9f4BE

http://youtu.be/eJ_Y4k13bPQ

Trailers

http://youtu.be/A7hDoOECsSE

Green Screen Shakespeare

mix live action in the foreground with media in the background using A standard Mac computer Romeo and Juliet in 70s NYC? Macbeth in Minecraft?

Machinima

Using existing 3D animated world (such as the ones of video games) to create original movies. Machine + Cinema = Machinima Example http://youtu.be/8dp6yp1wAUc

Stop Motion Animation

Clay Dolls Fruit Legos

Lego Macbeth FAQ

Over 150 Lego Macbeths on YouTube Most indicate that they were chosen as an optional projects/choices for HS English classes Most demonstrate a great degree of care and concern for quality and audience How can we help kids do this better, even if we dont know how to do stop motion animation?

Show Mike Shepis Lego Macbeth http://youtu.be/w6jOuV0-dGw

Lego Macbeth

Lego Macbeth
Creative endeavor that he is invested in Naturally edited, though doesnt seem to think it is natural.

Cares about quality.

Cares about the audience. Considers the book report inconsequential.

Comics

Pixton

DIY: Word

Shakespeare in the Gutter

Notes for Shakespeare and New Media

Performance-Based Foundation Kids make Stuff Shakespeares Language Lead to Ownership Low Barriers/High Ceiling to Creativity Low Barriers/High Ceilings to Shakespeare