Place Yourself in History (America 250)

History Remix | Media Experience | All Ages

Open to all. Wallingford residency is not required.
A public civics education program hosted by WPAA-TV.

Use greenscreen (chroma key technology) to time travel & reflect about the Civil Rights Movement or any post-American Revolution story. We welcome your reimagined image, video and written reflection of 500 words, or less. We support voice-over and video composition of your essay. Submission is permission to use in a public presentation. Submit your remix image and short essay as an attachment to Freeman ‘s email.

How are you feeling? Describe what creating the remixed image felt like. Reflect upon your experience. Why did you select your image? What feelings were you trying to tap? Click here to download a fill-in form with a recap of instructions.

We can support you. We have a green screen and editing software.

Suggestion: Start with a time in history that interests you. Do some library or internet research. This will help you decide upon an image. Your reflection can be from any point of you. It is about how you interpret what you come to understand or question. When selecting a photo think about how you could be inserted. How you will need to pose?

FYI: There is also a green screen in the Wallingford Public Library Collaboratory.

DYI Greenscreen with a phone APP. There are several free Chromakey Apps for iPad and Android phones. You can set up any solid color you are not wearing as the backdrop for your picture. The illustration shows the basic concept of the process for your re-envision photograph.

FIND A HISTORIC IMAGE

There are numerous sources for photographs. The adventurous can try to do this project in a video. Always credit your image source. We have several of civil rights image collection links below. Send an email to us if you plan to make your remix image here.

Pond5 Public Domain Civil Rights Collection
C-Span provides a good starting point if you are interested in the 1960s.
The work of Charles Moore may stir your thoughts and feelings.
Public Domain Image search on Google Images. You can tailor it by decade.
Citizen Archivists have a hub.
John Kuroski curated 55 photos that cover this span of events: Harlem riots of 1964 to the Watts riots of 1965, from the March on Washington to the March Against Fear, and from Martin Luther King to Malcolm X, for folks to explore the multifaceted struggle and hope of the civil rights movement. These are in the public domain.

This is an education project. Participants are transforming images created by someone else. Because one of your images used in the project was created by someone else that image creator should be acknowledged. When you know the source, please cite the photographer or publisher of the original image.

Civil Rights History examples appear approximately 2 minutes into this video.