Samuel Richardson's Virtue Rewarded: Why Pamela is Virtuous

Описание: I created a didactic video about whether or not Pamela is virtuous. The project was open ended: I could have created a skit, written a musical, or painted a portrait to attempt to answer the question of whether Pamela feigns or does not feign her virtue, but the spoken word appealed to me.

The challenge of this assignment is that I am a writer. My medium of choice for debate is a composed piece of writing, a piece of paper with words that readers can mull over until he either rejects or accepts the argument, not the video presentation that I am trying to create. How should I create the video? Should it be linear? Should it mirror an essay? How much should the reader hear, and what should be on the screen? In the end, I opted for the only answer I knew. I essentially wrote a colloquial, but academic, essay, and narrated it. Thus, the challenge of writing a coherent essay persisted, and it was not until several drafts later that my narrated essay had any coherence. To focus the reader, I had relevant pictures and texts to accompany my audio argument.

The success of this video was that it worked out better than I thought it would. An essay meant to be read silently is different than a narrated essay. In the latter, not only does it have to flow verbally better, but someone has to action enunciate each and every word. It is a tedious ordeal to narrate perfectly, then create a video out of that audio. Nonetheless, I overcame that obstacle through raw persistence, and produced a fairly professional video arguing that Pamela's virtue is real.