April 7 and 8

Students are working to finish their short films about Feudal Europe (see directions below). Packets are due tomorrow.

The Early Middle Ages: Europe After the Fall of Rome
Short Film Project

The Romans ruled over what would become Europe and the Mediterranean for over a thousand years. For the most part the Romans provided stability and a vision of what a great civilization could be. After the Visigoths sacked Rome, and the barbarian tribes flooded into the fallen empire, many changes occurred.

Changes to Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire:
o Decline in the size and power of governments
o Reduction in long distance trade
o Decline in learning, the fading of Greek and Roman culture
o Cities disappeared, people lived in rural villages and farms
o Germanic kingdoms grew
o Feudalism became the dominant political system
o The Catholic Church became very powerful

Your job is to illustrate that change (from the Roman Empire to Feudal Europe) by creating a short “film” using iMovie. Your finished “film” will be between one and three minutes. You’ll combine images gathered from the internet, images you capture using your own digital cameras, voice-over narration, titles, music, and images you alter in photoshop to create the finished film. After watching your film the viewer should be able to understand how Europe was changed by the fall of Rome and the emergence of feudalism.