In this workshop, History students will create short stop-motion videos that capture the drama and division of certain episodes during the French Revolution or inspired by it, such as the Haitian Revolution.

The students will work in groups of 6, taking on various roles such as writer, director, set builder and so on. They will read a variety of primary sources as well as their text book to learn the history of the episode their group is responsible for (such as the Storming of the Bastille, or the Tennis Court Oath), and they will then plan a storyboard and script. This will allow students to feel creative control over the material as well as responsibility to the class and to each other for producing a good product.

Once Jessie Curell of  Hands-on-Media-Education  comes in, she will teach the students how to effectively shoot the video and how to edit it—inserting subtitles, sound effects, and so on