Have you ever wondered how some of your favourite places got there name? Well if you haven’t I guess this post is not for you.
Last week it was history week so each of our previous podcast groups made a video about the history and namesake of places like Gastown, Mt Seymour, Lions gate bridge and many more.
Ruby, Isobel, and I decided to make our video about Stanley Park.
Our assignment was pretty straight forward:
- Title (introduce your place)
- Location (including map!) and images
- Description of the area or site
- History of namesake
- Myth or facts? – Include any stories you came across about the area – real or made up
- Bibliography (minimum 2 sources)
Just to make sure your not confused, here’s a example on the history of Grandville Street.
Though, for our projects we weren’t going to get an expert and our video is only 3 minuets, this gave us ideas of video techniques to add like stop motion.
Next we made a script on google docs so we could all edit throughout the project.
To make the work load easyier on us, I did the recording, and Isobel and Ruby made the visual on explain everything.
This first draft needed work. I was not happy with the audio in this, so that’s what I focused mostly on in our final draft.
I thought this project went pretty well and I definitely learned a lot about Stanley Park. One thing I would change is the music could have been more up beat and interesting. I thought our visuals were still intersting and well done but If we had time I would have liked to film at Stanley Park.
Till next project.