Thursday, June 19, 2008

Acrobatic Swan Lake (Group Process Project)

Yesterday in our group discussion we took a look, through "youtube" at a dance group performing the ballet "Swan Lake". This was no ordinary dance group. The type of skill required in some of the acrobatic movements these performers were displaying was unreal. After watching this performance our Tech Resources group decided to use the video and music for our project. This decision came after we began to fiddle with the sound of "Swan Lake" in the sound editing program called "Audacity". After speeding up the sound source then playing with the existing youtube video we began to see how we might use an activity like this in a lesson on music or video editing. As a group we decided to each edit some of the sound clip for the video we saw of "Swan Lake" and then compare tomorrow. Because we want our project to inclue a lesson plan that might be possible to use in our classrooms we thought that if we used a few different edited versions of one song then perhaps we could dicuss the differences and similarities in the new editions with our classroom. Some discussion topics might be: what is different about an edited version from the original, is it still the same piece of music after editing? what effects do the edited versions have on the video and why?
These are just some of the ideas we have been brainstorming in our past few group meetings.
The plan for today is to begin creating a powerpoint as well as asking ourselves some of the above questions with the music we edited last night.
The next step is to figure out how to edit a "youtube" video in order to produce similar effects to the music editing.

No comments: