Lesson 3 (100 minutes) - Music Videos in Production
Collage Process Underway
The Collage Crew, having been taught the collaging process in the previous episode, will begin cutting out their selected images from a stack of magazines at the collaging station.
Explicit safety demonstrations and tips will be given to ensure safe protocol is followed by students while using scissors.
They will scan through hundreds of images, selecting the ones that match their music videos’ emotional theme. This builds their skill in visual literacy, as they learn to interpret and evaluate imagery, as well as their ability to make purposeful aesthetic choices that communicate mood, tone, and meaning. These students will then scan the cut outs into a digital realm for the video editing.
Filming Crew Underway
The students that have selected to be part of the Filming Crew will be taken to a corner of the room for a short lesson on the operation of video cameras. This will be a basic lesson, helping students to navigate to the automatic camera settings and showing them how to power on the camera and record footage. Students are introduced to some simple filming styles and are encouraged towards experimentation. Depending on the appropriateness of filming on school campus grounds, the students (most likely in pairs) will then venture out to capture footage. If roaming is not a possibility, students will film within the classroom. One work around to support idea generation is to have one student physically interpret and then enact the emotional tone of the music through movement and facial expression, while another records the performance. This might include gestures such as expressions of sadness, dancing, or displays of anger, amongst others. This activity helps students translate emotional responses into performative forms, to be inserted into their music videos alongside the collage elements.
Editing Music Video
The teacher will then guide students through setting up their video editing software to create their music video projects. Through explicit demonstration, students will be introduced to editing knowledge such as importing media, sequencing clips, basic animation and cutting to the beat. All this will lead to students boosting their ICT capabilities.