Documentary: "So Great was the Burden of Founding Rome"

Looking at the history of Rome through the lens of the Aeneid, its great epic of national identity. Created by classmates Laura Gauch and Shiv Subramaniam for National History Day.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Rome
• Aeneid
• documentary
• history

[jgcooper]

you miss a bit of stuff on the early part about the triumvirates, but the rest was good, i love your voice. and shiv narrating in latin gives it a great touch, cheers!

[lauragauch]

Yeah, we had to leave out a lot to meet the time limit...glad you enjoyed it!

[lauragauch]

I see where you're coming from now, and yes, Shiv does speak another language at home-- Tamil (plus a bit of Hindi, for watching television.) I don't know much of anything about his family in India, except that they live in Southern India, and that Subramaniam is a somewhat common Indian name-- I've met someone else with it.

I'm almost certain he's still singing, which would mean he's still playing a bit; I'm not convinced anything could stop him from doing so. Where have you heard him?

[jskonrad1949]

Laura, I get the sense that you would like to direct as well as write. Very demanding, like conductng an orchestra. I've worked on industrial videos (low-end, short stuff; commercials and training videos) and even those were complicated and relatively expensive to produce. So I imagine that in addition to script writing, you'll be studying editing, photography-cinematography, production. I write and the one thing I regret is not taking acting lessons to help with character development.

[lauragauch]

I like directing well enough, but I think I'd rather work with a good director and just handle the editing, which I love. It's where everything becomes an actual movie. Alas, none of my classmates can be trusted to get all the necessary footage, so I end up doing a lot more, but that's OK. I enjoy it.

I toy with animation, but I think I'll just leave my big-budget scripts alone til I get to California and have some hope of making them as they're meant to be made.

Do you work in film?

[jskonrad1949]

(Continued) Laura, knowing film for today's generation is as important as knowing typing was for previous generations. They used it for input and communications (computer and other digital devices), film is effective output. From what I see, you've made a good start. Will you consider transfering to a film school or doing graduate work in film?

By the way, what happened to your coproducer, Shiv Sabramaniam, Armenian? My best friend is Armenian. jskonrad

[lauragauch]

Oh, my friend Shiv-- he's in university now too, studying Biology. He's not continuing in Latin, but he is taking Sanskrit. He's not Armenian, by the way; he's American, of an Indian family. We've lost touch, unfortunately...I haven't spoken to him since Stanley Lombardo showed up at his school to do a reading, and he called me up to say, "Guess who I just saw buying a sandwich!"

[FuckGayrece]

@JamesGREEK26 "Graecus" Tell me something gayreek. First do you know what "Hellen" means. supposed name you have. And at what point in your brief history did your people start to call themselves "Helen"

[FuckGayrece]

cool romans were Illyrinas. the "Alban forefathers" probably referring to the Ilyrian tribe of Albanoi

[xixioxaxe]

Someone have wrong pronounciation of latinian "que".

[TheJuvelir]

aaa that head is not Mark Antony's but Pompey's

[BillDFC]

You couldn't conquer Scotland,but then none could.

[bigcashmoney4life]

Your voice is so sexy and relaxing... it could put me to sleep <3

[bundlesofmsg]

thanks for totally spoiling the fucking aneid for me, i was really looking forward to finding out what happened

[JamesGREEK26]

Rome gave us the name we carry today??? If you're talking about the english name of Greece which is Greece then you are right because it was taken by the English people from the latin word "Graecus" which means Greek, if you are reffering to the Greek name of Greece which is Hellas then you are 100000% wrong. And by the way the correct name is Hellas and not Greece.

[Barbarian337]

Rome gave you greeks the name you carry today.

It conquered you and turned you into slavery!!!!!