Year 8 Rotation 3 Week 4

This week...

This week, we focused on the creation of the introduction music. We have finalized what instruments we are going to use, and what sort of beat it will have. The arts have started the sketch and the script. However, the arts are not making much progress on either of them, meaning we will have to help the arts complete it. Otherwise, even us, music team cannot finalize the length we will be playing the instruments. Depending on this, we have to change the beats/ rotate the type of music we will use.

Monday 20th March 2017

In this lesson, music team was successful in creating a piece of music which we are planning to include in the introduction part of the performance. In this music, we decided to use 3 instruments; guitar, piano, and the drums to create the scary beat. The beat will be 1.2.3.4. The guitar code will be 6-4-5-6, strumming pattern as 3: 4th and 5th string, 4: 6th string. On the keyboard, it will be like Ab (A flat) - A - Ab - f. The percussion instrument will be like 1.2.3.4 but the last beat will be double. Since we only have two people who are in charged of music, we will ask the art students to help us record the music so that it can go with the video. In terms of recording, we will edit the music using mixcraft or possibly any other types of music editing app, transfer it so that it can be added to the stop-motion video.

Wednesday 22nd March 2017

This lesson will be missed due to the Shakespeare day, where Gr.7, 8 and 9 will be involved to perform what we have created in relation to Shakespeare's life and/or the plays he had made. Since we will be missing this lesson, we could be practicing the piece of music we had created; Mayukh-guitar and Me- Piano (keyboard) beats. This piece has to be done at the same time so we will have to keep on practicing the piece until we can master it.

Next week...

We will have to have the script finished by then, start planning for the actual music we are going to us during the actual story part goes on. We have to speed up in creating the piece so that we can finish by the deadline. The fact I am missing many lessons times, due to school events taking place. I am taking part in many things leading me to miss a quite a lot of lessons. To catch up with the action plan. We have to make sure that the art has made some progress too, so that we can decide on when to start filming for the stop-motion video. 

Year 8 Rotation 3 Music Week 3

This week...

This week, we finished off the planning, shared it with my groupmates and made sure that we know exactly what each of the groups has to do. We have also started on the creation of each area. Art is mainly in charged of creating the stop-motion video and the script, although music team will also be helping it whilst we create the piece of music to go with the video.

Monday 13th March 2017

In this lesson, we have started the lesson altogether (with the art students) to make sure that we all know what the plan is. We have also discussed the storyline and deciding what each of the team will be doing. We have reached the point where we have decided that music will be focusing on the background music and help the art team do scripts and the video since we only have two people. Art is mainly going to focus on creating the claymation characters, but at the same time, work on stop-motion video, and the script. After the art group had gone to the art room to start planning their work,  Mayukh and I started on exploring the music. Since we don't have the scripts yet, we decided on what instruments we will use. We thought of few pieces of music which we consider in actually using it. While we were exploring, Ms.Cross came in, and she told us that there are many ways of using an instrument, which I was quite amazed by. I also realized the importance of thinking out of the box and the fact it is always a formula that idea + creativity = special performance. 

Wednesday 15th March 2017

I was not here in this lesson. Although I was present in school, I was taking a part in tech fair. From my group, me, Mayukh, and Raushan were involved. However, Kaisan and Omar had started on the script since they sent me an invite on email to edit the document (script) which also helped me in knowing what they did during the lesson. Me and Mayukh while then, discussed that how we can stick to the action plan. We decided that Mayukh will start creating the music on the guitar, and I will be starting to create the tunes on the keyboard. We will both surf on the internet too, to find any music that may give us ideas on creating the best-fitting piece. 

Next week...

Next week, we will ask the art team to finish creating the script and/or help in creating it. Music team will then record reading it (if possible) we will decide on which music to play live, and which to record since we only have 4 hands. We should not forget to finalize what our core instruments will be, and how we will be using them. 

Year 8 Rotation 3 Music Action Plan

We have completed the action plan for both art and music. In terms of music performance, we will have a lot of the work as a homework since it's just 2 people instead of having more people like last term. We will have everything that we cannot complete as homework so that we could stick with the action plan until our performance.

The screenshots below are the action plan for our group.

Year 8 Rotation 3 Music Week 2

This week....

This week, we had two lessons, where we were given time to decide on the topic (story) for our claymation video, finalize it and complete the action plan.

Monday 6th March 2017

I was not here in the lesson on this day due to the netball tournament we had on the school team, however, my groupmates had discussed the ideas, leading to the point where they want to mix fairytale and horror into our video. They have also decided that one of my group mate Raushan, will do the video creating mainly and everyone could help her, since she had already made it once for tech fair. They were also starting to do the action plan.

Wednesday 8th March 2017

I was present in this lesson. I had discussed the ideas with my group mates in the back room and started to do the action plan. Since the discussing took a lot of time, until we can finalise the idea, we could not complete the action plan. We had shared the document on google drive so that we all can edit it and share it so that we can get the action plan done, plus we all will have it even after we separate, so that all of us can follow it. 

Next week...

Next week, we have to finalise what we will need according to the action plan and the story plan, and check if art supplies are enough. The art group (Raushan, Kaisan and Omar) will start by the sketch drawing, and make more detailed action plan on when they will have to finish each puppet by. Me and Mayukh will both have to start exploring the instrument we are going to use. Most probably, I will be in charged of creating the script, so me and Mayukh can decide on which music/instrument to use depending on the scene. 

Year 8 Rotation 3 Music - MYP The Art of Storytelling

Art of storytelling

KEY CONCEPT: Communication

RELATED CONCEPT: Narrative

GLOBAL CONTEXT: Orientation in Time and Space, Personal & Cultural Expression

STATEMENT OF INQUIRY: Symbols and conventions used to convey meaning to audiences are influenced by time and space

INQUIRY QUESTION: What is the relationship between arts and audiences?

ATLs:
Social-Collaboration
Research-Media Literacy

INTERDISCIPLINARY UNIT-Music, Art & English

Group mates: Kaisan 8AA (Art), Mayukh 8AA (Music), Omar K 8AA (Art), Raushan 8AA (Art)

Genre : Horror