Year 8 Music Media
In Year 8, students can chose to participate in a music elective which focuses on Music technology, Composition and Performance. This year students focused on skills relating to recording and editing sound using Digital Audio Workstations such as GarageBand and Bandlab.
Introducing Me!
In this unit students explored the use of electronic music in hip hop and rap. The major project for this topic was the creation of their own personal rap which was all about them.
For this task students had to write and perform the lyrics and create a backing track using pre-recorded loops and beat sequences.
Advertising and Music
During this topic students analysed how music is chosen to match a target audience, set the mood, describe the product and capture the viewer's attention. The major project for this unit was to have a go at creating a soundtrack that supported the overall message of the advertisement
Lizzie
Jamie
Holly
Telling Stories
Term three was all about how Music can help to tell stories. Students explored the role of sound effects as well as film and cartoon soundtracks to help create mood, tension and humour.
Monsters Inc re-imagined
Holly, Savanna, Heather, Jay & Lizzie
Animal Kingdom battle by Neo
Luke, Cadyn and Dylan
Miniscule Cartoon - A Bug Grand-Prix
Brayden
Ian
Lizzie
Ryan
Musical Makeovers
To finish off the year and demonstrate all of the recording and editing skills they have been developing, the students explored electronic music through remixes.
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Their task was to take a classic piece of music and re-create it into a more modern and electronic masterpiece!
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See if you can recognise the original piece!