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This is a list of all the activities you may have done if this project has been completed entirely. You may not have all of them, and/or you may have some extra ones of your own. This is the order in which you did them: it will not be the best order for performing them and you can decide that later. 

Remember, with presentations it will be best if you include a short introduction explaining to your audience the main things which you learnt and took into account for the presentations, so that they understand well and appreciate them fully! Perhaps it would be a good idea to have an explanation in English and then a Galician or Spanish translation, so that everybody in the audience understands as much as possible. (Not everybody is as good at English as you!)

1) A powerpoint presentation on racism in films. You could project the opening scene to Mississippi Burning to illustrate how music sets the scene for this film. 

2) Your lip-sync video. Before you show it and as an introduction, explain a little about the technical problems during the beginnings of sound in the cinema and maybe also as part of the introduction you can project that funny clip from Singin' in the Rain to explain the context well to your audience. 

3) Titanic performance. Try to make sure that you can all play as a whole group as you did in class, at least for part of the song (maybe the chorus). This will mean making sure you have all the instruments ready in the hall before the festival starts. Make sure you have a good arrangement (some people can play some parts as a duet or a solo) and hopefully you can include some singing, too. You could project photos and/or clips from the film (with no sound) as you play: that will be very effective.

4) A short presentation on John Williams and his work. Show clips with some of his soundtracks. 

5) "Do, re, mi" from The Sound of Music. You can play and sing this as a whole group. Do a good arrangement (same comments as for point number 3). If you think, maybe you could include a short explanation about Guido d'Arezzo first: if your explanations are simple, clear and lively, your audience will be interested and impressed with your knowledge about the history of music!

6) Your rap. You can project your video and if you like you could perform one live. 

7) Meet the Flinstones. Same comments about arrangements, and again you could project images and clips from the cartoon (with no sound) during your performance. 

8) Presentation on Louis Armstrong. A good idea would be to start as we did in this project: do a brief explanation on the ironical use of music in the scene from Good Morning, Vietnam, show the clip, and then do your brief presentation about Armstrong. 

9) A presentation about the use of music in O que arde (Fire Will Come). It would be good to talk about Galician cinema at some point in your festival. 

10) Your two class favourites of the videos you made showing how music can change the mood and meaning of a scene. Explain a little bit first about this function of music in the cinema, and about how you did this in class. 

11) Your favourite soundtracks of all time. Perhaps you can show the video that we used for your class vote with 26 different soundtracks (maybe you can even ask your audience to shout out the name of the film in the six seconds between the clips! I bet they will enjoy that!) Then you can tell them which were your five favourites or show the class powerpoint you made when you did this activity.

OK! That's a lot! Just two more things: 

1) Don't forget to include any of your own melodies that you composed with Musescore. Perhaps you can play them: your audience will be impressed and you can show that among you there may well be the future John Williams!

2) There may be students among you who would like to play instrumental solos or sing a solo in English, or maybe who can dance well; or maybe, if some of you play the bagpipes and the tambourine, you can form a group of Galician traditional music to start the festival off!

I think this is going to be a very impressive festival!