World War I: Still Image of Stretcher Carriers

Sample Paper Edit

Voice Over Video/Stills
Names from long ago... Still Image of Stretcher carriers
Title : Vimy Ridge
...and far away lands. Still Image of Men walking on Duck boards Title : Ypres
Why should we remember? Still Image of bombed landscape
Title : Passchendaele
It was the first World War, The Great War they called it.... Rows of soldiers marching in formation
...and Patriotic Canadians answered Britain's Call. Image of recruitment poster with British Flag
But none of the eager recruits knew what awaited them overseas. Still image of happy soldiers waving from the back of a truck
This was a new type of war Man carrying wounded comrade on his back through trench
Developments in machine guns and barbed wire... Close up of machine gun firing
...made frontal assaults a suicide mission. Soldiers running across no-mans land and falling
Both sides dug in, creating a series of trenches... Soldiers digging a trench
...from Switzerland to the North Sea. Pan across a network of trenches
But flooding, disease... Row of soldiers walking through a flooded trench
...enemy snipers... Soldiers laying low to avoid gunshots
...poison gas... Still aerial image of plumes of poison gas streaking across field
...and the constant barrage of enemy shells... Shot of trench hit by shell from inside the trench
...made life in the trenches unspeakably horrible. Two soldiers huddle miserably under a coat in a muddy trench.

As you view the footage samples, note down clips you might like to use, and jot down ideas for your voice over.

Keep your voice over narration to approximately one minute.

You will need only about 15 to 25 clips/still images in total, and do not select more than 100MB of footage.

Write out your voice over, and create a paper edit as seen in the example, noting down the shots you would like to use, and any titles you will need to create. This will be brought to the next class where the projects will be created and edited.