I've decided to do my multimedia project to inspire my dance students to not be limited in their dance by the settings of a stage. As we have seen, especially through musicals, through the world around us, dance can happen anywhere and really interact with our environment. Technology has made it possible to bring the world with us and us to the world. I want my dancers to be able to bring the world to their viewers.
So my movie will be about dancing outside of a stage.
This will teach my high school students to look for possibilities in choreography and a whole new way to adapt the movement to the environment, or how they will want to eventually adapt the stage to their choreography. with this video they will show the magic of dance in an place through dance and film.
My story board has been attached to my website under the assignment page
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Music Editing
I worked with the program Goldwave and I have to say it was a really great experience. Here are some of the final projects I was able to create:
The songs:
The dog days are over and feel good time had minor editing. With these two songs I had to listen to the music and find a good spot to cut them to make them under two and a half minutes. This was easier thanks to the Beatles and that music is very repetitive now. But i never realized how much time goes into making sure there is not one extra beat. I will be sing these in actual dance classes I teach.... so it really already is proving useful.
Small I decided to have more fun with. I used tools to adjust the level of the sound, and even add some sounds in there, if you listen closely you will hear the Nokia ring tone in there. It took me a long time, but it was a lot of fun.
Walking on Air has again minor editing. This is the full song in it's entirety, I have just played with the beats, the timing, and the noise levels.
The very hardest part of this assignment was getting them on here. I didn't realize that blogger does not support audio files, then neither does youtube, and neither does any program that I could find. Som after struggling for hours, I did the easiest thing I could think of so here they are recorded on my camera and posted to you youtube.
One reason I chose this program and this project is that this is a free program that still has a lot of different things thsat you can do to the music. Free programs are very beneficial when working with a small budget as you have with many dance programs and arts programs in schools. I also have a unit plan I created for my practicum class for either a dance 3 class or a Dance Company that involves the students doing their own choreography project. In this project I would like the students to be able to cut the music on their own, so that they may "own" their choreography. I would take the students to the lab one of the first days of the class and give them the opportunity to play with different tracks of music and the capabilities that they have with creating music. This would be great if I had access to a computer lab. I think when I do get a job with a school I will make sure I look into what computer programs they have available and take the knowledge that I have learned to learn a new technology and pass that on to my students.
The songs:
The dog days are over and feel good time had minor editing. With these two songs I had to listen to the music and find a good spot to cut them to make them under two and a half minutes. This was easier thanks to the Beatles and that music is very repetitive now. But i never realized how much time goes into making sure there is not one extra beat. I will be sing these in actual dance classes I teach.... so it really already is proving useful.
Small I decided to have more fun with. I used tools to adjust the level of the sound, and even add some sounds in there, if you listen closely you will hear the Nokia ring tone in there. It took me a long time, but it was a lot of fun.
Walking on Air has again minor editing. This is the full song in it's entirety, I have just played with the beats, the timing, and the noise levels.
The very hardest part of this assignment was getting them on here. I didn't realize that blogger does not support audio files, then neither does youtube, and neither does any program that I could find. Som after struggling for hours, I did the easiest thing I could think of so here they are recorded on my camera and posted to you youtube.
One reason I chose this program and this project is that this is a free program that still has a lot of different things thsat you can do to the music. Free programs are very beneficial when working with a small budget as you have with many dance programs and arts programs in schools. I also have a unit plan I created for my practicum class for either a dance 3 class or a Dance Company that involves the students doing their own choreography project. In this project I would like the students to be able to cut the music on their own, so that they may "own" their choreography. I would take the students to the lab one of the first days of the class and give them the opportunity to play with different tracks of music and the capabilities that they have with creating music. This would be great if I had access to a computer lab. I think when I do get a job with a school I will make sure I look into what computer programs they have available and take the knowledge that I have learned to learn a new technology and pass that on to my students.
Dance Concert Poster
This was a lot of fun to do, There really are billions of possibilities on what to do in photo editing, I wanted to keep the final project simple although I was playing for weeks.
A special thanks to my great model, my nephew Jackson, who was showing off all his dance moves for me. He takes dance at the studio that I work at.
I think that in a class this would be a lot of fun to get my students involved in the concert and make it their own. This is not a project that I would use in an entry level dance class, but instead with my dance company. I think it would be great to create an entire unit our of creating a dance concert poster. We would be able to decide the concert themes and brainstorm what we want in the mood of the concert. Then have a photo shoot with the studentst that they may be able to be a part of the experience. I would then take them into the lab on one to to introduce them to the program walk throug the steps necessary to create a poster. Depending whether the school was on a block schedule or an everyday class schedule. They would have that class to work on their poster then one more day of class, then i would have the disc copy due one week later. We would them as a class be able to look at what the other students created and vote on what we want to do for our concert poster to represent our company to our school.
final project progress
I found a program called gold wave that I have been able to play with in editing some music. I have never before had the chance to edit my music so it has been a lot of fun to see what it is that you have to do and how much money it will save me to be able to do this on my own.
GoldWave
Digital Audio Editor
GoldWave
Digital Audio Editor
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