Hamilton Buhl Hamilton HDV5200 Curriculum - Manual (Page 9)

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Students can also take a documentary approach to digital video
projects. They may research a historical period or scientific invention and use
that information as the basis for their documentary video project. This can
easily be done by downloading still images from the Internet or scanning
images from books. The still images may be imported into your video editing
programs. Voice‐overs and additional video footage may be added to create
a documentary in the style of Ken Burns.
Student Videos from Poetry
When I began using poetry in my digital video classes I realized that
poems provide a wonderful structure for digital video projects. The poem,
after all, is a script for a performance.
The poetry project begins when groups or two to four students are
asked to find a poem that they would like to dramatize. Once the poem has
been approved the group must find a way to dramatize each line of the
poem. Students may also use still images downloaded from the Internet to
illustrate lines of their poem or better yet create images of their own in
traditional or digital media. Once the students have completed taping their
dramatizations and finding suitable images they construct their video. The
students must add the text of each line of the poem to their video clip or still
image. If they did not speak the line of the poem when taping, they may
record the line as a voice over. The resulting project is a true multimedia
interpretation of a poem that includes images, sounds and text.