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LOGLINE

Little gnome dude wants mushrooms but he cant get them.

PROTAGONIST

Little gnome guy.

PROTANGIONST CORE WOUND / MOTIVATION 

Need for mushrooms.

GENRE

Metal or something probably.

PLOT DESCRIPTION

Little gnome guy wants to get some cool looking mushrooms but he can’t get them because they’re too high up or something like that.

TREATMENT

cool little gnome world

INFLUENCES and EXAMPLES

Swans maybe? King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard maybe?

Sleep is your Superpower

• Matt Walker: Sleep is your Superpower

Cue

Notes

Summary

Learn Better Practicing Techniques from Dr. Molly Gebrian

• Dr. Gebrian’s Videos about Learning and Music

Cue

Notes

Summary

• TITLE THIS BLOG POST: Melody Research, Analysis, and Recording Project
• PLACE A CREATIVE COMMONS IMAGE RELATED TO THE PROJECT FROM wordpress.org/openverseAT THE TOP OF THE POST
  • WATCH MR. LE DUC IMAGE PLACEMENT TUTORIAL
• FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS IN THE:
  • Melody Research, Analysis, and Recording Project Feedback Form (PDF)
• REVIEW THESE OLDER POST EXAMPLES – THEY ARE A LITTLE DIFFERENT FROM YOURS:
  • Chase’s post
  • Abbey’s post
  • Cassy’s post
• DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s INSTRUCTIONS AFTER COMPLETING THEM

Summary

this project is about creating a melody.

My First HookTheory Melody

Notes from Howard Goodall’s Melody Video

• How Music Works with Howard Goodall – Melody

Cue	Notes
Write your questions here…	Write your notes here…

Summary: Summarize what you learned from the video here..

Melody Composition Terms and Definitions

• The terms and definitions below are from the Basic Concepts of Music Theory podcast by Jamie Henke at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Her Basic Concepts of Music Theory video on YouTube

• Theme: A long, flowing melodic idea.
• Motive: A short, rhythmic idea (Beethoven’s 5th).
• Period: 8-12 measures or a musical sentence.
• Phrase: Usually 4 measures.
• Antecedent (Question) Phrase: First 4 measures of a period.
• Consequent (Answer) Phrase: Second 4 measures of a period.
• Scale Degrees (C Major Scale)
  • Tonic: C (1 , 8) – Stability and resolve.
  • Supertonic, Mediant, Submediant: D, E, A (2 , 3 , 6) – Moderate tension, useful for transitions and carrying on an idea.
  • Subdominant, Dominant, Leading Tone: F, G, B (4 , 5 , 7) – Causes the most tension, leads to the tonic.
• Steps: Any movement using half or whole steps.
• Leaps: Any movement using intervals larger than a whole step.
• Conjunct motion: Melody is built primarily out of steps.
• Disjunct motion: Melody is built primarily out of leaps.
• Repetition: Repeated material (i.e. motive) used to create a link between two phrases of the period.
• Contrast: Two phrases that contain contrasting material to create tension and interest.
• Variation: Halfway between contrast and repetition. The two phrases include some recognizable material and some varied material (i.e. taking ideas up an octave).

One of My Favorite Melodies

• Find one of your favorite melodies at Hook Theory Tab Index of Songs
• Embed a clean version of this song from YouTube
• In writing, describe why you like this melody, and identify the musical key, tonic note, and tension notes
• What do you notice about the note structure/pattern of the theme of the melody?
• DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s INSTRUCTIONS AFTER COMPLETING THEM

My Second HookTheory Melody

• Place a screenshot of the melody notes on HookTheory
• Link to a .mp3 file of your second melody from HookTheory
• Write a brief reflection about this melody. What do you like about it?
  • Where did you raise tension or suspense in the melody?
  • Where did you resolve tension in the melody?
• DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s INSTRUCTIONS AFTER COMPLETING THEM

What I Learned & Problems I Solved

• Write what you LEARNED from the research, analysis, and melody creation parts of this project
• Explain how you SOLVED AT LEAST ONE PROBLEM
• DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s INSTRUCTIONS AFTER COMPLETING THEM

Grammar and Spelling

• Write what tool(s) did you use to check your spelling and grammar?
• DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s INSTRUCTIONS AFTER COMPLETING THEM

Editor

• Who was your editor?
• Write their first name only
• DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s INSTRUCTIONS AFTER COMPLETING THEM

Resources

• Assessment a Feedback
  • General Music Composition Rubric (Google Doc)
  • Period Melody Composition Rubric (PDF)
• Hook Theory Tools and Tutorials
  • hooktheory.com/theorytab/index (Analyzing Songs)
  • hookpad.hooktheory.com (Creating Songs)
  • Hookpad Beginner Tutorial – Part 1: User Interface (YouTube)
  • Hookpad Beginner Tutorial – Part 2: Melodies (YouTube)
  • All HookTheory video tutorials
• Music Theory
  • Mr. Le Duc’s Key of C Major Notes and Chords Chart (PDF)
  • How Music Works with Howard Goodall – Melody
  • Melody defined at Wikipedia
  • iTunesU – Basic Concepts of Music Theory by Jamie Henke at University of Wisconsin-Madison
    • Her Basic Concepts of Music Theory video on YouTube
    • https://www.youtube.com/embed/rl-V2IsUprQ
  • Michael New
    • The 4 Critical Parts to Writing a Melody
    • How Basic Chords Work – Music Theory Lesson 1
  • Art of Composing
    • Last two minutes of How to Compose Music – Lesson 1 – How to Write a Melody by Art of Composing
      • Inversion, etc.
    • How to Compose Music – Lesson 3 – The Musical Period by Art of Composing
    • artofcomposing.com/creativity-importance-melody
• Free MIDI files midiworld.com/files/
  • MIDI file of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy from his 9th symphony
  • Coldplay Talk sample midi file
    • The musical notation interactive sheet music for Talk by Coldplay
• MIDI and Music Notation Editors
  • onlinesequencer.net – online
  • flat.io – online
  • noteflight.com – online
  • MuseScore downloadable program
• GarageBand
  • How to View and Print Sheet Music: Garageband X Tutorial
  • GarageBand Basics Screencast Video Tutorial
• Melody Research, Analysis, and Recording Project Feedback Form (PDF)

SUMMARY

Role

Screenwriter

Intention (SMART Goal) for the Session

By Jan 12, as part of team #1 as the Screenwriter, I will have evidence of writing a script that fits the format of a short film by following How to Write a Short Film for session 3.

PRE-PRODUCTION – INQUIRY

Leader(s) in the Field / Exemplary Work(s)

I chose Spike Lee as my leader in the field for session 3.

Training Source(s)

Project Timeline

Pre-production Milestones

• Pitch/storyboard
• fibonacci cards
• script done

Production Milestones

• ready to film
• All footage/sound captured
• editing done

Post-production

• film linked
• film viewed
• blog post done

Proposed Budget

• Team 1 Film Budget

Evidence of Team Planning and Decisions

PRODUCTION – ACTION

The (FILM, SOUND, or GAME Creation)

Detective

Skills Commentary

Slides

This session I mainly focused on properly formatting the script, as well as trying to make it fit with the film’s genre.

POST-PRODUCTION – REFLECTION

21st Century Skills

Ways of Thinking

This session we managed time efficiently enough to capture all of the sound and footage. we communicated well enough to have a fully edited film with all of the needed audio and footage.

Ways of Working (Communication & Collaboration)

We had a lot of good communication during this session. We communicated things like what each team member would be doing that day, or whether or not we had certain footage/audio.

Tools for Working (Info & Media Literacy)

I used a template for the script to format it right, and I looked at a few professional screenplays as references for what a proper script should look like.

Ways of Living in the World (Life & Career)

During this session, I figured out how important communication and planning are. If we hadn’t communicated about certain things our film would have been a complete mess.

Reactions to the Final Version

James commented on the lack of music in the film, which will be my main goal for the next session as sound designer. He said the writing was a little comedic, which was sort of the point, but he said it didn’t really fit with the film, which is fair. I was not here when we presented the film to the class, so I don’t have any peer feedback.

Self-Evaluation of Final Version

I think we made a pretty solid film production-wise. Though the story and dialogue could use some revising to make it fit with the film a little more.

Grammar and Spelling

I used Grammarly to check my spelling and grammar.

Editor

Elliot

Summary

My goal was to practice learning Hysteria by Muse for practice.

What I Did This Week

I practiced learning Hysteria by Muse

How I Did It

I looked at bass tabs.

What I Learned

I learned how to play Hysteria by Muse (almost)

Problems I Solved

There wasn’t really any problems.

What Was the Result (Picture/Video/Audio)

Embed media of work

How on/off Track Was I?

On a scale of 1-10 I would say I was a 9. I pretty much only practiced bass.

Session Number:	2
Week Number:	3
Total Estimated Hours Contributed this Week:	4 hours
What is/was your overall goal for this week?	finish filming

Work Tasks 

Date	Task Description	Time Spent	Was / Were your choices and work Best Practices? Why?
11-6	Filming shots of water getting knocked down	40 minutes	yes, we’re getting closer to being done with filming
11-7	Filming scenes of Elliot going through his bag	40 minutes	yes, we’re almost done filming
11-8	Filming last few scenes	35 minutes	yes, we’re done filming now
11-9	Sorting through footage to find good clips	whole period	yes, we’re figuring out which clips are the good/bad ones
No School			Veterans Day Observed

Personal Comments (Optional) 

Remember reflecting on your own choices and work can help you improve both. Are there any other comments you would like to include for your own reflection? If so, please enter them here: 

Session Number:	2
Week Number:	3
Total Estimated Hours Contributed this Week:	3 1/2
What is/was your overall goal for this week?	Practice Bass

Work Tasks 

Date	Task Description	Time Spent	Was / Were your choices and work Best Practices? Why?
11-6	practicing Bass	whole period	yes, I’m learning to play bass better
11-7	Practicing Bass	whole period	yes, I’m learning bass more
11-8	Practicing bass	whole period	yes, I’m figuring out more techniques and details of playing bass
11-9	Practicing bass	whole period	Yes, I’m getting better at bass
No School			Veterans Day Observed

Personal Comments (Optional) 

Remember reflecting on your own choices and work can help you improve both. Are there any other comments you would like to include for your own reflection? If so, please enter them here: 

Session Number:	2
Week Number:	2
Total Estimated Hours Contributed this Week:	4 1/2
What is/was your overall goal for this week?	film

Work Tasks 

Date	Task Description	Time Spent	Was / Were your choices and work Best Practices? Why?
10-30	Absent	N/a	N/a
10-31	Absent	N/a	N/a
11-1	Filming	30 minutes	yes, we learned how to improve
11-2	Filming	40 minutes	yes, we got shots for the first scene
11-3	Filming	40 minutes	yes, we got more filming done

Personal Comments (Optional) 

Remember reflecting on your own choices and work can help you improve both. Are there any other comments you would like to include for your own reflection? If so, please enter them here: 

Session Number:	2
Week Number:	2
Total Estimated Hours Contributed this Week:	3 hours
What is/was your overall goal for this week?	Practice Bass

Work Tasks 

Date	Task Description	Time Spent	Was / Were your choices and work Best Practices? Why?
10-30	Absent	N/a	N/a
10-31	Absent	N/a	N/a
11-1	Practiced bass, leaning songs	40 minutes	yes, I learned some tabs
11-2	practiced bass	50 minutes	yes, I got more practice in
11-3	practiced bass and guitar	50 minutes minutes	yes, I’m learning bass and guitar a little more

Personal Comments (Optional) 

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Session Number:	2
Week Number:	1
Total Estimated Hours Contributed this Week:	4 hours
What is/was your overall goal for this week?	plan out filming schedule and finish up pre-production stuff.

Work Tasks 

Date	Task Description	Time Spent	Was / Were your choices and work Best Practices? Why?
10-23	working on trello board	whole period	yes, we are now more organized.
10-24	researched screenwriting techniques	half an hour	yes, we were done with mostly everything.
10-25	finalized storyboard	10 minutes	yes, we are done with everything as of now.
10-26	Mapping out film schedule	20 minutes	yes, we are more prepared now.
10-27	researching screenwriting techniques	whole period	yes, I understand screenwriting more now.

Personal Comments (Optional) 

Remember reflecting on your own choices and work can help you improve both. Are there any other comments you would like to include for your own reflection? If so, please enter them here: