Week 5
- Lucy Devine
- Mar 31, 2020
- 3 min read
Video!
This week was very fun. I learnt some skills I've always wanted to know and I can't wait to keep using them in the future!
Here is what I am going to cover in today's blog:
1. Content covered in class.
2. The video I created and my thoughts.
3. Where I am taking my new skills.
4. Update on SoundTrap.
6. PLN
This week was all about filming. Recording our lives, our work, our performances has become an everyday part of our modern lives. Young people are more than ever engaging with a variety of on screen visual media and entertainment. If you have the technology at your school (or as James has said, if you have basically ANY technology at your school), audio and film can be a great way to get students engaged in the content you are learning. As a teacher the skills would be beneficial for any online learning which needs to take place (a particularly current issue) or for recording concerts.
In the class James talked us through the importance of prior planning, taking into account the framing, lighting, sound and equipment available. We then went on to learn about multi angled recording, which can add an extra level of depth and interest to a video. I FINALLY learnt the reasons why stage crew and the likes clap at the start of recording. He also showed us a neat trick to create a multi angled video with only one camera.
The next challenge was to create a multi angled video myself.
Here it is, please excuse all the fluffing around.
SO, I'm actually really happy with my efforts. I used AKG mics which recorded through GarageBand, and the video was shot on my phone and iPad. This was all put together on iMovie. I am very fast and confident with setting up the mics and the zoom recorder, and getting the input into GarageBand (a skill I have fine tuned over the past week). I whilst I was able to line up the clap for the two videos, I did find micro-adjusting difficult on iMovie, which could have lead to problems if the sound and video didn't line up exactly (but luckily they did). This is a setup I would definitely use in the future (and hey, I did this in less than 40mins, not bad for a first attempt).
In another course I am taking, Australian Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander Music, Larissa, Emily and I (we all also do TME), are arranging Wiyathul by Gurrumul for a school choir. We are hoping to use our new video and sound recording techniques to sing our arrangement from together from our different homes. I'll update you in later weeks on what we manage to come up with! Wiyathul uses chords C, F, G and Dm. So, Dm has become a new chord I can play on the ukulele (yay!).
I also have to submit a recording of myself playing bassoon as a requirement for my performance course. I think it could be fun to set up a multi-angled video for this, and practice my skills again. I'll post that in the coming weeks as well.
The Facebook group for Soundtrap has become very active over the past two weeks, as schools have been going online. And some great ideas have been coming out of it!
My favourite post so far:
It's so great to see teachers inspiring and helping other teachers. Hopefully I can use some of their ideas as inspiration for my lesson plans in uni, and the years to come.
Here is the link to the video in the comments:
James sent out an email this week, telling us the Katrina is doing a great job with her blog. He did not lie, her blog is fantastic. I had a read over her blog, and I hope to use some of her layouts and ideas as inspiration for my blogs to come. I also followed her on Twitter. To be completely honest, I am procrastinating on the whole twitter PLN thing as I am not super into social media. But I have followed Katrina to learn how she is using it. I am setting my self a task this week to look at other blogs and twitters from this course, and hopefully learn more and be inspired from them. (I guess learning from your peers is a good foundation for my PLN, I am definitely learning a lot!)
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