Orchestra+Documentary

Your local primary school has invited you to make an educational film to teach students about the different instrument families in the orchestra. Working in pairs, follow the steps below to produce your short educational movie.

Here are two examples of the work from Year 7 in 2010: media type="youtube" key="MJq36FFKmEE" height="315" width="560"

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Lesson 1.

Warm up 1: Play: Music Match. Warm up 2 Listen to the sound of each instrument of the orchestra.

1. Listen (or watch below) to the 'Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra' by Benjamin Britten media type="youtube" key="kR9nDnyIhAU?fs=1" height="344" width="425"

2. View the seating plan of the orchestra from early music to modern times. (You will need to click the bottom left hand corner of each page to see the orchestra develop from early to modern times.)

3. FInd __**two different images for each instrument**__ used in the orchestra and download it to your USB. (Once you have finished backup your work to your partners USB as a second copy.)

The first image is of the instrument and the second image is of a musician playing the instrument. Repeat this for each orchestral instrument.) // Google images Flickr //

// (Click here for a list of instruments in the [|Modern Orchestra] to make sure you have an image for each instrument.) //

4. Find at least 10 different and interesting images of the modern orchestra to use for the start and end of your movie.

Lesson 2

5. Save the 'Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra'.mp3 found on your Y7 Music Class Page to your iMovie project. (You need to download the mp3 and save it to your USB.

6. Create a new iMovie project. (Project properties: 16:9) Titled: "Your names_Orchestra".

7. a) Drag the audio 'Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra'.mp3 onto the iMovie project. b) Drag all of your collected photos of the orchestra into the project.

Begin the movie with a suitable title. (T) You may use also use titles to introduce the instrument families.

8. Organise the photos of the orchestra to match the audio. Start with pictures of the orchestra. When you hear the various instrument families playing after the main introduction, organise the pictures of the instruments to identify the correct instrument families being played.

9. Experiment with the duration of the photos, 'Ken Burns' slide effects and transition effects to make your presentation interesting. Advanced users may experiment with titles to introduce the instrument families.

10. End your movie with a short credit.

11. Export your movie using the 'share' menu to the size of a 'mobile movie' to your USB. Upload to the eLF on the class page.