PowToon Process Analysis

For my digital extension project, I did my best to use the limited images, text styles, and backgrounds that PowToon provided for me to portray a serious sad book like Uncle Tom's Cabin.
For the background, I went with the parchment-like brownish paper. I thought it would be authentic to the time period, since in the 1800s, people used thick parchment like paper to write letters and literature.They did not use the thinner notebook paper that most people use today.
For the first slide, I thought it would be appropriate to include a quote that Emily Shelby, the wife of old Master Shelby, of what she truly thought of slavery. She was one of the many Southerners who tried to sugarcoat slavery into something that is wonderful. But she realized that you can not take a terrible thing and twist the image to make it more positive. Slavery is wrong, no matter how well you treat your slaves.
The words that I used in my digital extension project were basically that slavery brought in the cash for the masters and sorrows for the slaves, but then I mentioned one of the important themes of the book: love overpowering hate. In the last slide, I mentioned that reading the book will make people think of things they never thought of before.
As for clip art images, I used a man and a woman looking sad in the 3rd slide and money like images to represent profits in the 4th slide. For the 5th slide, I used sad black figures with a blue cloud above them and a lock beneath them to portray their sorrow and how trapped they are in the slavery system. The 6th slide has happy black figures with a heart above them to represent the love theme. Lastly, for the 7th and final slide, I used a thoughtful looking man and woman image to show viewers that reading Uncle Tom's Cabin will leave them thinking.
As for the music, I used a song called Silent Tears by Roger Subirana Mata from Jamendo. The song has a sad, harmonizing melody to it, with vocals and drums. It sort of reminded me how African American slaves used their own voices and drums to sing songs about their pain and their wishes to be free.