Music in Advertising and Films Activities 3

There are some projects that will help you reflect about advertisements and soundtracks. Your teacher will tell you which projects best suits you.

a) You are going to analyse different TV advertisements. Use LibreOffice Impress to create a fact file sheet that includes:

• Name of the product.
• Target age.
• Kind of images (nature, inside, space...)
• Kind of music, what feelings does it arise?
• Motto.

Get a video of the advertisement and explain your conclusions to the rest of students. (Does music help sell the product? Would you buy the product? why? why not?, etc.)

b) TEAMWORK: We have read something about silent films, and you can see an example here (remember there is another example in the unit). Could you do something like that and add some music?. Here you have some instructions:

• Think about the story you want to tell: if you need any help, click on the numbers to get some ideas: 1, 2, 3.
• Plan the scenes. Draw or write them so that you can visualize them.
• Don't forget to use titles to give extra information between scenes and use your body language and face expression to show emotions.
• Remember tips to record properly.
• Edit your images: You can use the programs on your phones or any of these: OpenShot or Avidemux, or the page media.io. You can find free music at freepd.com and Pixabay music. If you need to give a fast movement to the video, you can use this online page: Clideo.

Here you have two pages with more advice:1,2. Keep it simple, it doesn't have to be too long, a couple of minutes is enough. Give importance to the music that accompanies the action.