This postFor my Middle English class we had to give five-minute presentations on a person or event from that time period (A.D. 1100–1500). Today was my turn, and I couldn’t decide who I wanted to talk about, so I ended up giving my presentation on Anonymous. Yup, him. I put together an 40-second introductory trailer in Blender, cooked up some slide backgrounds also in Blender and then Photoshopped them and added text, and wrote the text out in verse. Here’s a section of the text:
Ten years later, skull and marrow,
Our man’s next to Old Jack Sparrow,
Abducting Eleanor de Montfort,
From a marriage in the Welsh court.
Help her find a brand-new consort.I wish I could say things got better,
But it’s not true; they got deader,
When the Famine swept the ’hood
He sent his kids into the woods
To starve so he and wife could fatten,
You’ve probably heard tell of that in
Hansel and Gretel, by Brothers Grimm,
’Tis truth I say, and times were dim.But life got darker not much later,
On a ship, our man’s a waiter,
Just passed through a port of sorrows,
People sick, and dead by morrow.
Off he heads back home to England,
Carrying the Black Death with him.
From there it spread across the country,
Devastating all and sundry.Like a Phoenix from the ashes,
Our good hero’s back, and dashes
Off a dozen books or two,
The Pearl is one, and Patience too,
And Sir Gawain and the Grene Knight,
And lots of others, late at night
With candle burning, quill in hand,
He tells his tales of foreign lands.
For screenshots, head on over to BenjaminCrowder.com. Here’s one slide, though:
The presentation itself went fairly well, even though I was extremely nervous. The best part is that it’s over. :)
