Author Study Project

Presented by Seniors in The Great Books (ADV English) class at Cary Academy. Click on the Author's Portrait to view a one-minute streaming video designed to portray the essence of an author's life and work.

To prepare for this project students read a biography of a favorite writer, choosing from a master List and a major work by that writer. (Read the Project Description.) Students chose a key passage from the work that typifies the writer's interests and style, and also found or wrote themselves a short passage that helps to explain the author's passion. They viewed a Demo video prepared by our Media Technology teacher, Mr. Hamilton, to get video design ideas. Then they incorporated their ideas and passages into a one-minute video using a variety of state-of-the-art computer technologies, including digital image processing (using Adobe Photoshop), sound effects and music (using Acid Music), voiceover recording (using Sound Forge), and video image processing (using Adobe Premiere). The projects were graded on how well the short videos communicate the essence of the author the student studied.

Go to Class of 2004 Student Videos
Got to Alpha List of Authors
Go to pictures and student comments about the project               

Class of 2005 Student Videos


C. S. Lewis
'Til We Have Faces
John Steinbeck
 East of Eden
Jack Kerouac
The Subterraneans
John Updike
Rabbit, Run
Alexander Pushkin
 Eugene Onegin
James Joyce
 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man


Tom Stoppard
Arcadia


Alice Walker
The Color Purple
Frank McCourt
 'Tis
Toni Morrison
 The Bluest Eye
Franz Kafka
The Trial
Lorraine Hansberry
A Raisin in the Sun
  


Isabel Allende
 Daughter of Fortune


Lillian Hellman
 Pentimento
Herman Melville
Moby Dick
Leo Tolstoy
Master and Man
Mark Twain
Huck Finn
Charles Dickens
Hard Times
 
Edward Said
Orientalism
Countee Cullen
Color
Joseph Heller
Something Happened
Shakespeare
Macbeth
Fyoder Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment
Emily Dickinson
Complete Poems

Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita
Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse


Mary Shelley
Frankenstein


Leslie Marmon Silko
Ceremony


Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of Seven Gables
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels

Joseph Heller
Catch-22