Hamlet Meets Prime Time: Modern Family

 

 

Hamlet Meets Prime Time: Students integrated multiple technologies to "update" Hamlet. Students considered the play's focus on the power of words, appearance vs. reality, and the dysfunctional family as they used "Modern Family" as a style model. Students first analyzed the text, then created storyboards, taking into account elements of mis en scene (camera angles, editing cuts, costumes, makeup, props), filmed, then edited using Microsoft Movie Maker, where they also considered diegetic and non-diegetic sound.