The CLC recently completed its inaugural Music Video Summer School, inspired by having a number of bands using our music recording facilities this year. Fourteen students spent 5 days at the centre creating a music video in 4 different groups. We asked one of the bands from our partnership schools, The Ruze (website here), to record one of their tracks for groups to create a video for. One of the groups chose to record their own song which gave them a chance to use the recording facilities. The following days were spent planning, filming, animating and editing the films, with students learning how to film using with the green screen and edit in Adobe Premiere.
You can hear feedback from one of the groups here
The finished videos were all excellent and were judged by a panel made up of CLC staff:
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Thanks to all the participants for their hard work, and particular thanks to The Ruze for the track and allowing the groups to film them playing.
Year 2 pupils from Mundella School spent the day at the CLC recreating the Great Fire of London. Small groups created stop-motion animations using I Can Animate (see animation above) with some fantastic hand-made sets whilst others sampled Baroque music and created their own sound effects in Garageband. Others dressed up as Samuel Pepys, King Charles and a number of other key people of the times, to act out scenes in front of the green screen, in order to add fire footage afterwards in Adobe Ultra. A final group interviewed characters and talked about artefacts from the fire.
As you can imagine it was pretty hectic, but the pupils and adults learnt a great deal about the events and how to use lots of different bits of technology.
A band from Meadowhead School, The Killer Instincts, came to the CLC in November with music teacher Kerry Knight to record a music video. We used our new green screen equipment that means that you can add any background to what you film, like in weather reports. The band played their song “Realise” a number of times in front of the special screen, and chose some video backgrounds. The backgrounds were then edited into the footage of the boys playing to create a finished music video.
This technology can be used for a number of creative video projects across the curriculum, and is highly motivating for students. Once our extension is completed over summer, we will have a large space that can be used as a recording studio for such projects.
The website NUMU at http://www.numu.org.uk/ is a dedicated safe space for young people to showcase their music, meet others and learn new skills. It is designed to support the Music Curriculum across primary and secondary and integrates with the innovative learning approaches of Musical Futures. Schools can create their own music label and upload their own original music.
Heritage Park School took a small group of year 7 pupils with two year 9 helpers to The Beatles Story in Liverpool in November. This was to fit in with key stage 3 music. They recorded video and audio and took photos of the trip. When they returned, each pupil created their own video of the day, adding music and voice-overs. For a sample of the sort of thing they did click here:Heritage Park sample video
Barbara Kirkaldy, Deputy Headteacher, said that the project gave the pupils “a positive experience of working at the CLC and producing a finished item they were proud of. In fact they are entering the Global Video award.”
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