In the biblical story of The Tower of Babel, people are building a tower for God. They defy God and their punishment is that they cannot communicate with one another and cannot finish the tower. We will use this story to show the language barrier that we faced when attending the different productions and interpreting the readings and movie. In our project, there is going to be a language barrier in which nobody can communicate with each other as the “punishment” for the wrongdoing.

We do not want to give too much away about the specifics of our final project, but our brainstorming amounted to a concept and also to choices in music to represent the shifting mood from clearly good, to increasingly bad. For the music, there will be a constant, steady beat that is harmonious and as the issue arises, the tone changes to dissonant. There will be the undertone of the song “Babel” by Mumford and Sons as well.

There will be minimal graphics in our project but they will exist to show the deconstruction of the Tower of Babel and used to relate it to our project. We will recreate the story through the video portion of the project, showing the language barrier that we face.

There will be dancing in our video, and there will be a contrast of color and sounds to portray our idea. Obviously all of this is subject to change however, we just thought that our idea showed what we agreed was prominent in the course throughout the semester.

By: Jaclyn Tortora, Olivia Sztanga, Jessamyn Sutten, Joanne Ramadani, Ralph Schenider, Lisa Huang, Janice Fong