Make your own video with different soundtracks
Make your own short video clip
- Duración:
- 2/3 classes
- Agrupamento:
- Groups of 3/4/5 students
TIME TO MAKE YOUR OWN VIDEO SHOWING THE FUNCTIONS OF MUSIC IN THE CINEMA!
PREPARATION:
- Make sure you have permission from your parents or guardians if you want to appear on camera. (You don't all have to: we will need people to film the videos!)
- Decide what tool you will use to film: your mobile phones -with your teacher's permission- will do fine, or maybe some of you or the school has a camera that you can use.
- Plan two or three classes for this activity. Class 1 will be for planning and filming; class 2 will be for editing the video (in your school computer room as you will need four or five computers, depending on the size of your class: or maybe if you prefer some of you can get together at home and edit the video as homework); and class 3 will be for watching all the videos and voting for the best two!
CLASS 1
STEP 1: Organise yourselves into groups of four or five.
STEP 2: Spend five minutes planning the scene you are going to tape, of about a minute in length, not more. KEEP IT SIMPLE: somebody going for a walk, or looking through a window, or two of you having a conversation, or walking around the playground together.... You don't all have to be actors: you will need at least one person to do the filming!
You should all film in the same area (for example, in the playground), so that your teacher can keep an eye on all the groups at the same time!
And remember, you are going to show the same scene with different soundtracks, so keep that in mind when you are filming!
STEP 3: As a class, when your teacher tells you to, move to the filming area (the playground for example), and spend ten minutes rehearsing for the video in your chose groups; and then ten minutes filming it.
DON'T WASTE TIME!
You probably won't be satisfied with it first time round, so make sure you work quickly to give yourselves the chance to complete this activity as well as possible, filming it various times so that you can later choose the best version.
CLASS 2
STEP 1: Choose the best version of the videos you made last class, and upload it using the software programme you prefer. Now edit it so that it is repeated twice (you will use three different soundtracks). That is to say, you see the same scene three times one after another.
STEP 2: What sort of atmosphere do you think will be best for this scene? Funny, sad, terrifying, tense, romantic, happy? Find a soundtrack that you like (it's best to use copyright-free music always) and edit your video using that music. Remember, it should not be more than a minute long!
STEP 3: Now, decide what three different moods you are going to give your clip, and repeat step 2 each time.
OK, you should have your very own video clip
demonstrating how powerful music is in the cinema!
To finish, make sure you give your video a title, and make sure you mention the names of all of you who participated (and thank your teacher, too!) in the end credits. You should also mention the names and authors of the music you used, and any other necessary information.
CLASS 3
TIME TO SEE ALL THE VIDEOS IN CLASS AND VOTE FOR YOUR TWO FAVOURITES!
Keep these videos secret! Your two class favourites can be used for the end-of-project concert, to explain to the audience how important music is in the cinema (and to prove how good you are at making video clips!)
Make your own video: evaluation rubric
Up to 4 points per category: máximum mark 16
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
Sense of responsibility/efficiency |
Sadly lacking | Has enough to pull through with the team but there is room for improvement | Is responsible and efficient | Is highly responsable and efficient |
Ideas and creativity |
Shows few or no ideas and little or no creativity | Puts forward some ideas and shows some creativity | Has quite a few ideas and is fairly creative | Is full of ideas and creativity |
Technical ability |
Poor | Fair | Good | Excellent |
Team work |
Has much difficulty working in a team | Manages to work in a team but there is much room for improvement | Good at working in a team | Excellent at working in a team |
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