Copyright Laws

First off, I loved the video we watched about copyrights with all the Disney characters! It was a little hard to follow at first but I think it really drove the point home. I learned that their are certain ways that are acceptable to borrow parts of copyrighted material: to teach, news reporting, parody (this was interesting to me, but it makes perfect sense!), and in making critical comments. I want to learn more about copyright laws because even though you can use bits of copyrighted material in certain settings, you still must be careful in how you use it. For example, part of fair use is that you use the copyright in a way that does not change its original meaning (at least I think that is true, the video says you cannot change the commercial impact) but if that is true, wouldn't parody change the meaning because it is making fun of the original work? I'll have to do some more research I guess.

Video Project Storyboard

(The end of the storyboard is cut off a bit, but it is just the credits page. Also there was an image on the back of the page I was drawing on so thats why there is a big rectangle going through my storyboard.)
The idea for my video is to help my dance students explore the cultural and historical context of dance from another country. This video is an example for my students so they can create their own videos about cultural dances. They will be required to research a traditional folk dance from another country (for my teacher example I chose Bhangra from India) and create a video to share with the class with a performance of the folk dance and images from the chosen country (including traditional dress, festivals, and historic locations in the country). This project will help the students be exposed to a lot of cultural dances in a short amount of time and have fun doing it!