Potential+Video+Clips

=Idea 1-shorter project=

Clip 1 "Pipe Dream" I thought that maybe we could have students watch this clip. Then do some group reflection by answering questions like: "This piece is called "Pipe Dream" do you think the title is appropriate for this piece? why or why not?" "If you had to come up with a name for this piece, what would you call it? why?" "Do you think someone could actually build a machine similar to this that would be able to play songs on its own?"

As an individual take home assignment, we could have students for homework write a creative piece about what a day in their life would be like if they were the "pipe Dream"'s caretaker, the musician in charge of writing a new piece of music for the instrument, or another such person.

Clip 2 "Resonant Chamber"

This piece could be used for a similar breakdown of assignments as the above piece or as an alternative for someone who does not do well with creative writing. For classes that need options, we could maybe show both clips, have the students answer questions in groups on both pieces(see possible examples in Clip 1 lesson plan), and then students could choose between the "Pipe Dream" creative writing assignment and a more technical/research based assignment with this piece: "There are many strigned instruments combined into one giant instrument in this section. Identify at least four of the musical instruments and write a short paper exploring the four instrument you detailed(brief history, what kind of music are they typically used in, how long does it take to elarn to play, etc.) and tell me why you think that those instruments were chosen for inclusion in this music machine."

=**Idea 2-longer project**= Use "Pipe Dream" from the above idea as the main clip for this assignment, We will need to other clips to watch as well without sound. I suggest we use clips that appear very different: a food commercial, a funky art video, ther animated music clips so that students have a variety of clips to look at.

1. Have students listen to “Pipe Dream” with no pictures. Run a discussion of : “Now that you have heard the music, what kind of image do you think goes along with this music?” Have the students brainstorm a couple of ideas.

2. Show the students short bursts of several different clips. Ask them to identify which clip they believe that music belongs to. Why? What in the clip makes them think that “Pipe Dream” belongs to that clip? What kind of sound do they think belongs to the other clips?

3. Play the clip “Pipe Dream” with both music and video. How many students guessed correctly? What about that music and that clip ‘gelled’ for them so that the students knew those two clips went together?

4.Watch the entire clip with the class. In groups have the students fill out the worksheet.

5. We could still spin this into a creative writing project with an individual homework assignment similar to the ones discusssed in project 1. Regardless of which proejct we choose, I think it would be a good idea to work in a creative homework assignment. We already have the students thinking critically about the video, so lets get them thinking creatively as well. It will show them that things can have different uses and will hopefully get tehm used to thinking more in general.