Pop Culture: Film Scoring

Today, Ms. Boiselle will be rocking us through a film scoring activity.

We'll start by reading this article and sketchnoting it to demonstrate our understanding of the process this composter uses.

http://www.vulture.com/2013/10/michael-giacchino-how-to-score-a-movie.html

Then you'll try your hand at film composing.

Possible clips to choose from 

·      Yeah I can Fly – Iron Man http://movieclips.com/HhtE-iron-man-movie-yeah-i-can-fly/

·      Sleep Tight – The Blind Side http://movieclips.com/jiXqG-the-blind-side-movie-sleep-tight/

·      First Practice – Coach Carter http://movieclips.com/NCXy-coach-carter-movie-first-practice/

·      I’m Flying– Titanic http://movieclips.com/xwKU-titanic-movie-im-flying/

·      Graduation Drums – Fame http://movieclips.com/4nqj-fame-movie-graduation-drums/

And the music composition tools to help you create your scores here in the classroom. 

http://www.beatlab.com/

and Garage Band (on your laptop)

On  your blog, embed the video you used and either upload the .MP3 to Soundcloud and link it on your blog or link to it if you made it in Beatlab.  Lots of options there.  #showyourwork.  

Put your sketchnote up on your blog, too!  Look at how much of your blogging for the week you can complete TODAY!  WOOT to the showing your understanding!   POWER RAD! 

ASSESSMENTS.

BLOG.  3+ Posts.
CURATION. 2+ Items.
PIN. on Flight307 Pop Culture Pinterest.
REQ'D POST. Music Supervision and Inspiration. 


OPTION ONE.

1.  Read through the articles provided on Pinterest about music supervision.

2. Select a film or episode of a TV series.

3. Carefully select three pieces of music to use in that film or episode in very specific moments. 

4. Explain your reasons for each choice.

5. Here's the most challenging part: connect your reasoning and decisions to the thinking of one of the music supervisors you read about in the article.  Show how you use a professional's process and reasoning to inform your own decisions.

OPTION TWO.

1.  Read through the articles provided on Pinterest about music supervision.

2. Select a film or episode of a TV series.

3. Carefully and specifically describe, and title, three songs created by your Create-a-Band that you would use for that film or episode. 

4. Explain your reasons for each choice.

5. Here's the most challenging part: connect your reasoning and decisions to the thinking of one of the music supervisors you read about in the article.  Show how you use a professional's process and reasoning to inform your own decisions.

Due: Friday, May 1st.

Humanities: Baltimore & Fishbowl

Today some folks will present their Culture & Composition slide decks.

Then we'll do an activity and discussion around the slide show Mr. Brackett sends you regarding Baltimore and talk about what's happening there.  You'll write an explanation of the story the images tell and then there will be a discussion following.

ASSESSMENTS.

BLOG. 3+ Posts
Req'd Post 1.  Students Making a Difference Playlist.
Create a playlist of three videos showing students making a difference in their local, national or global communities.  Post these videos on your blog and explain what the student did and why you chose to include it in your playlist.   Be intentional.

This playlist is only one of your posts for the week and will be our pre-work for our final project of the year.

Req'd Post 2.  Composition & Culture.  Create a slideshow or video of your presentation that can be shared with a wider audience.  Post it on your blog.  Include voice over or typed commentary and music -- the qualities that you know will appeal to your users based on our empathy conversations.

Due. Friday, May 1st.

Culture & Composition.  
Export your slideshows as QuickTime movies OR PDFs and put in your Humanities IN folders along with your rationales and self-assessment (Four Corners).
Due. ASAP.

ROOTS 12. Quiz.
Due.  Thursday, May 7

WRITE. Baltimore story.
Based on slideshow
Due. Today, April 29

LITTLE THINGS ESSAY.
Discover Phase:  Brainstorm, Rose/Bud/Thorn.
Post to Blog.
Due.  Wednesday, April 29. 

Brit Lit: Discovery Phase: Design Challenge

Today . . .

1.  Find an article/video/podcast/website related to your design challenge:  mudding signage or thermostat car starter

2.  Use EasyBib.com to create a proper MLA formatted citation for  your article/video/podcast/website.

3.  Complete one of the four literacy strategies to show that you understand the text.

Notice/Wish/Wonder.

Text Connections.

Sketchnotes.

Soundtracking.

4.  Put your work in your Brit Lit IN folder.

Humanities: Feedback and Little Things Essay Intro

We'll start with our last few Composition & Culture presentations and some feedback for those presenters.

From there we'll break into our four stations because TUESDAY!


STATION 1.  FRANKENWORD with BOISELLE.  You'll be using Roots 12 to have a FrankenWord experience with Ms. Boiselle.

STATION 2.  FEEDBACK TRENDS.  (Production Phase of DEEP dt) Go through the feedback you've received on your Composition & Culture presentation.   Answer the following two questions in either a blog post OR an email to Ryder/Brackett

A. What trends do you notice across the feedback?  Things people noticed OR things people seemed to overlook that you noticed?

B. How might you apply this feedback to a revision/next iteration of your presentation?  What's your action plan?

Haven't finished your presentation?  Use this time to work on it.

STATION 3.  FEEDBACK with BRACKETT.  Have a conversation with Mr. Brackett about the presentations and how a next iteration could improve the situation.

STATION 4.  BRAINSTORMING and ROSE/BUD/THORN with RYDER.

Today you are being assigned your next essay.  The first submission draft will be due early next week.  Exact date TBA.

Little Things Essay

How might we design essays in which we share experiences of our own, or those of others, where a little thing had a significant (big) impact?   Consider objects, moments in time, single experiences, interactions . . .

In this station you will first brainstorm and spidea (word association) and then sort those ideas into Roses (gorgeous ideas), Buds (neat thoughts but not sure where to go with them), and Thorns (stay away from these ideas OR wrangle them carefully)

We will be using Post-Its.  Lots of Post-Its.

ASSESSMENTS.

BLOG. 3+ Posts
Req'd Post 1.  Students Making a Difference Playlist.
Create a playlist of three videos showing students making a difference in their local, national or global communities.  Post these videos on your blog and explain what the student did and why you chose to include it in your playlist.   Be intentional.

This playlist is only one of your posts for the week and will be our pre-work for our final project of the year.

Req'd Post 2.  Composition & Culture.  Create a slideshow or video of your presentation that can be shared with a wider audience.  Post it on your blog.  Include voice over or typed commentary and music -- the qualities that you know will appeal to your users based on our empathy conversations.

Due. Friday, May 1st.

Culture & Composition.  
Export your slideshows as QuickTime movies OR PDFs and put in your Humanities IN folders along with your rationales and self-assessment (Four Corners).
Due. ASAP.

ROOTS 12. Quiz.
Due.  Thursday, May 7

LITTLE THINGS ESSAY.
Discover Phase:  Brainstorm, Rose/Bud/Thorn.
Post to Blog.
Due.  Wednesday, April 29.

Pop Culture: Music Supervision

As we continue down the path with our Create-a-Band bands, we're gearing for our transition into our next mini-units: film and television cultures.

Today we'll look at music supervision and Wednesday we will explore film scoring.

Head to our Pinterest boards and take a look at the series of articles I've pinned related to music supervision.  Pick one article and complete the Notice Wish Wonder graphic organizer shared with you in Google Drive.  (You'll need to make a copy that you can edit.)  We'll do a row together as a class to get you started.

OR

You may choose to sketchnote the article instead.  The goal is to demonstrate your understanding of the article.

Then we'll play around with music supervising a couple of different clips and discuss which of our bands would create music suited for which genres of films and television.

And we'll talk about possibilities for your music culture projects, due next Thursday, May 7.


BLOG.  3+ Posts.
CURATION. 2+ Items.
PIN. on Flight307 Pop Culture Pinterest.
REQ'D POST. Music Supervision and Inspiration.


OPTION ONE.

1.  Read through the articles provided on Pinterest about music supervision.

2. Select a film or episode of a TV series.

3. Carefully select three pieces of music to use in that film or episode in very specific moments.

4. Explain your reasons for each choice.

5. Here's the most challenging part: connect your reasoning and decisions to the thinking of one of the music supervisors you read about in the article.  Show how you use a professional's process and reasoning to inform your own decisions.

OPTION TWO.

1.  Read through the articles provided on Pinterest about music supervision.

2. Select a film or episode of a TV series.

3. Carefully and specifically describe, and title, three songs created by your Create-a-Band that you would use for that film or episode.

4. Explain your reasons for each choice.

5. Here's the most challenging part: connect your reasoning and decisions to the thinking of one of the music supervisors you read about in the article.  Show how you use a professional's process and reasoning to inform your own decisions.

Due: Friday, May 1st.

Humanities: Composition & Culture Presentations

Today we will present the rest of our Composition & Culture presentations -- pecha kucha style.


ASSESSMENTS.

Blog. 3+ Posts
Req'd Post 1.  Students Making a Difference Playlist.
Create a playlist of three videos showing students making a difference in their local, national or global communities.  Post these videos on your blog and explain what the student did and why you chose to include it in your playlist.   Be intentional.

This playlist is only one of your posts for the week and will be our pre-work for our final project of the year.

Req'd Post 2.  Composition & Culture.  Create a slideshow or video of your presentation that can be shared with a wider audience.  Post it on your blog.  Include voice over or typed commentary and music -- the qualities that you know will appeal to your users based on our empathy conversations.

Due. Friday, May 1st.

Culture & Composition.  
Export your slideshows as QuickTime movies OR PDFs and put in your Humanities IN folders along with your rationales and self-assessment (Four Corners).
Due. ASAP.

AP Lit: Test Prep and Watchmen

This is it folks . . . the last sprint to the test.

Here's the work for this week into next.

In Class.  Test Prep.  

Be prepared to write a 15 minute prompt each day.   We'll go through all three types of questions: poetry, prose, and open response.

Also be prepared to do a multiple choice item each day.  We'll do two poetry items and two prose items before the test.

We will discuss each item.  Discuss approaches to the writing prompt.

And . . .

Watchmen.  We start Watchmen this week.  We will use our analysis of each chapter to prime our minds for the test.

We'll read just one chapter a night until post-test.


ASSESSMENTS.

Read.  Watchmen.  Chapter 1.
Due. Next Class.  Just read.  We'll analyze and sketch note in class.

Blog. 3+ Posts.
Req'd Post.  AP Review Pinterest Boards.
Create a set of Pinterest boards to aid in your review, and your peers' review, of three texts YOU LOVE from the past four years and want to have mentally ready for the open-ended prompt at the test.

Your set of boards MUST include pins that will help you to remember:
Characters & Narrators
Structure & Point of View
Conflicts & Resolution
Imagery & Symbolism
Items, Objects of Significance
Settings of Significance
Overarching Themes
These categories are based on trends one can see in the open ended response prompts of the past. 

Now, how you organize your boards is up to your brain.  It may make sense to have one board for each title.  It may make sense to have one board for each category of analysis.  Set it up in a way that makes sense to your brain and has deliberate intentions. DESIGN it for you the user and for me the observer.

Put links to each of your boards on your blog post.

Here's an example: https://www.pinterest.com/maceeqi/frankenstein/ 

And another: https://www.pinterest.com/anjanordstrom/frankenstein/

Due. Friday, May 1.

Poetry as Design.
Get your three components completed and in your AP LIT Inbox  if not done so already.

Reminder of Expectations.

1.  DESIGN a POEM.  Craft an original piece that evokes the theme of happiness or connectedness.  It must use at least 7 poetic devices from this menu.
Due. April 15.  Poem for installation.
Due. April 16. 1 page analysis.

2.  DESIGN an INTERPRETATION of a POEM.  Craft a visual/audio/tactile interpretation of any poem you feel suits this theme.  Consider using Poetry Foundation  as a starting point for  your search.
Due.  April 15.  Interpretation for installation
Due. April 16.  1 page analysis.  Use poetic devices from this menu as backbone of this analysis.

3. DESIGN an EXPERIENCE with POETRY.  Design an interactive experience for students on campus that uses elements of poetry and increases happiness and/or connectedness at Mt. Blue Campus.  This is where the crux of our design work occurs.
Due. April 15.  Installation.
Due.  April 16.  Collection of poems explored.  Three analyses completed using SCOUT & CRAP. 
Due.  April 16.  Documentation.  DEEP. Discovery. Empathy. Experiment.  Produce.  Req'd Blog Posts for the Week.  Have documentation of every phase and explanations ready for viewing. 

Due.  ASAP.