MIOSM - Lesson Plan: Picture This!

Imagine You Are A Director And A Producer Of A Music Video!

OVERVIEW:
In this lesson, students will direct and produce images for their own imagined music video. Students will view the web application and understand storyline and timeline. Students will draw images from their own life that they can connect to a favorite song. Optional Extension: if PC’s are available for each child, they may use the application to drag images and create their own version of the trailer or film about Salzburg on the Wunderkind Little Amadeus Web site.

OBJECTIVES:

• View the video trailer on the Wunderkind Little Amadeus Web site
• Understand sequencing, storyline, and time line through the Your Wunderkind Little Amadeus Application
• Create images that reflect their environment imagined to a favorite song.
• Re-arrange their own images to create storyline and timeline.
• Hang their artwork to share with peers.
• Contribute to small group discussions.

• Computer with internet access and speakers for audio.
• 8 1/2 x 11inch drawing paper cut into quarters. Four sheets of paper cut paper per child.
• Art supplies: Crayons, chalk, markers, or colored pencils.
• Masking tape

PROCEDURE:

1. View the video trailer. Click on the crystal ball and then view the trailer. Explain to the children that a director or film producer had to decide which clips would be used and in what order/sequence to create a story. It is called "cutting" a movie and a music video is a short movie.
2. Show students how to cut a movie/music video using the utility on the Wunderkind Little Amadeus Website. Choose Your Own Wunderkind Little Amadeus Intro. Choose and drag scenes into the frame - recommended six to eight frames - and play back.
3. Explain to students that a director and producer rearrange cut frames to change the storyline and timeline. Demonstrate and play back.
4. Students will draw four scenes from their own life to create a visual storyline and timeline for an imagined music video. Distribute four sheets of paper and art supplies to each student. Guide students to draw four scenes that represent their lives. Leading questions: What four things do you do to get ready for school? What four things do you do after school? At bedtime? On a weekend? During the day? What is your favorite song? What song would you chosse to set your music video?
5. Once drawings are completed, invite students to imagine what order the images should go in to best tell their story in their music video. Invite students to rearrange the storyline and create their own timeline.
6. Break students into small groups to share their music video storyline and timeline with their peers and for discussion. Students may sing their song while they show the images in sequence.
7. Hang the cut frames of the music video storyline and timeline on the wall.

Extension:

Scan the children's images and download into iMovie, Windows Movie Maker, or a similar program that operates similar to the Cut Your Own Movie application on the Wunderkind Little Amadeus Web site. Apply music to the video. Have a class showing or play at parent's night.