I have a rough storyboard of my proposed video elements and I wish to film almost all of this myself.  This is because I want to be creative in a way that I am not using original footage of the speech itself but going out and filming for myself.

I have rough ideas and they are as follows;

My chosen part of the speech is 1 minute long so I plan to film a clock face for 1 minute and add small clips of the clock with the seconds ticking past.  I am planning on doing this to give a feeling of leading up to something, almost like a digital timer on a bomb.  Its only a matter of time until it explodes and I am trying to include this factor but turn into a way in which it fits in with my video and the time period of the 1960's.  I shall hopefully be placing these clock clips over the top of other video footage with different opacity levels.

Another is I want to resemble pain in appropriate parts of the speech by filming flames from a fire whilst also using the same idea for the clock, by overlapping this footage with others.  I may film a bonfire/fireplace or use a lighter.

I want to create motion, movement and the fact that this speech will turn America around.  Martin Luther King does this by enhancing his voice, making it louder, more up tempo.  I want to re-create this visually by taking an American coin and film it flipping, falling, turning in any movement to resemble this.

When selecting this part of the speech one of the first things I noticed was when we says ''When all of god's children'' (then continues to go on to say black men and white men, jews, gentiles etc) his voice very dramatically picks up in passion and becomes so much louder.  Like an explosion has happened.  I want to visually make this happen but not literally an explosion but to show some kind of impact of change.  I don't have many ideas how i could do this yet but I have thought of filming a rough sea wave crashing into a rock or something just as his voice picks up but this idea is no final idea as of yet.