Kate Yackel
Project #3: Lesson Plan
Composing to a video clip
Objective
Students use pre-recorded music and sound effects to create an accompaniment to a video clip. The sounds students use reflect the mood and actions occurring in the video.
Purpose
National standard #4. Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines.
National standard #8. Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts (i.e. video images).
Prerequisite Knowledge
Students have worked with the program GarageBand for
previous projects, including a group composition to accompany an image. They are familiar with how to use the
program and have explored some of the music and sound effect files contained
within the program.
Materials Needed
Anticipatory Set
Students write a response in their journal to the question, ³How do music and sound effects make a movie more interesting?²
Procedure
Check for Student Understanding
Students meet the requirements of the project (i.e. including three sound effects and one music clip) in their composition. The sounds compliment what is going on in the video clip, reflecting the mood and the actions present. Students are able to describe why they chose the different sounds to use in their project.
Closure
Ask students why they chose particular pieces of music and sound effects for their composition, and how these sounds enhance or reflect the content of the video. Ask students how this project was different from the previous project where they composed a piece to accompany a single image. Ask students which composition they liked better and why.
Extensions
Students could have the option of composing some or all of
the music for the composition on notation software. Students can create Vodcasts where they make the video as
well as the accompanying sound.