"Recording the Soundtrack"

I'm not exactly sure what to think of this video. Perhaps I shall describe it a bit (for my benefit). So in the video, musicians are creating the soundtrack for the Deathly Hallows video game. They don't know what scenes specific music is for. Each musician has headphones with a click track. Many interviews are done with coordinators who describe various scenes and continuity, transitions, and the use of loops. 

After the game is finished, some of the musicians come in for another interview and talk about what it was like, the mood of the music, ect. They then get to play the video game and discuss the music as they play. I think that recording music for a game and then playing the game would give insights into the music--the instrumentalists seemed to pick up on very specific details of the music. 

I know that I may be taking this blog in a different direction, but as I was watching I was thinking about a lesson I did with some of my middle schoolers. We were talking about music as expression and I showed them a video clip with three different excerpts of music--one was the music that accompanied the movie clip, and the other two were contrasting. We discussed how the music changed the scene and mood of the movie. I think it's the same with video games.

"Scholars Perspective"

This writing made me think of Dr. Radice's class through and through. Before grad school, I had looked up scholarly sources and journals, but not in the way I know how to do now. Dr. Radice required our history class to find scholarly, relevant sources, not settling for less than the best, and Professor Shanton showed us how to accomplish this. Professor Shanton and Dr. Radice have shown us what a wealth of information is out there. Although some administrators and educators may not want to take the time to show students the sources that are available and how to use and find them, this has not been the case this summer.

I am still learning, and I have a long way to go, but I feel informed. This last scavenger hunt is still difficult, but I have so much more knowledge as to what's out there than I did prior.