vide-audi-o

I've been thinking about ways for students to experiment with audio and video in the classroom. I think it would be a cool project to have half of an art class shoot video with no sound and the other half of the class construct a story from the video by creating the audio. They would record narration and create sound effects using Audacity. Students will recreate sound using other objects; perhaps a music class could work with us to create a soundtrack. Then we would combine the two elements together and edit the movie as a class. We would discuss producing, directing, and editing in Hollywood films and how a tone/mood can be set using sound. If there was no access to a video camera we could use found footage from google video and take out the sound. I think this project could easily work for different grade levels by adjusting their roles.

It would be nice to finish each day by listening to a podcast from an artist or curator discussing a contemporary work of art. First we would talk about what we thought the work was about, and then we would listen to the artist. This would help the students understand interpretation.