About This Activity
This one-of-a-kind, well-established, fun and creative camp is in its 9th year of existence. We started this camp as a way to teach kids how to create a music video from scratch but it has morphed into something much more special over the past few years. Led by Serra High School's innovative, award-winning music director, Joe Murphy, this camp simulates a whole music creation studio where kids learn to record music digitally using live and software-generated instruments. They learn best practices of form and composition to enable them to write a quality piece of music. Once they create the audio portion, the second half of camp is dedicated to the design and technical production of the video. They will create and write their own storyboard, select the location of their shoot, record the action, then bring it all into the computer to digitally align their music with the key points of action in their video. Sometimes the kids turn these into commercials, instructional videos or simply their own artistic expression. Using GarageBand, Apple's whole music creation studio as well as iMovie, this Digital Music Video Camp introduces real world technology, audio engineering, music composition, visual design, video composition and final post-production of a music video accompanied by their own music. And for an added bonus, we have access to 32 brand new MacBook Pro computers for our camp and in addition, we have a professional recording studio at our disposal. Appropriate for ages 8 through 16. Lunch and aftercare are not provided.
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