Marco Torres - Lights, Camera, Learn: Movie-Making Made Simple--And Fun!

Lights, Camera, Learn: Movie-Making Made Simple--And Fun!
Marco Torres

Kids demonstrate that they like different ways to learn
community 99% latino (mexican mostly)
5,000 students in the school
1 white student - only white people are in community are cops, teachers or lost
80% of LA trash goes through their neighborhood
power that video can bring

Video on child labor - influenced other kids in Austaulia to make videos on similar topics
kids need to feel part of society and country
as a teacher Marco was told to leave his culture at the door

Connecting the Family - funeral of Marco's grandmother

video "ham and Eggs" story about her grandfather
students interviewing grandparents about their life story - Rudolph Perez - video
high school students sitting and having a conversation with elders

Why - it connects people

Audio can make or break a film - Stay on Black Keys
get camera with audio support - mic in, invest in a better mic then camera
use Musical typing - stay on black keys and stay in tempo you can not screw up a song
black keys are in the same family of mulitiples and there are fewer of them
Math - fractions causes a huge drop in test grades
Use GarageBand timeline ruler to teach fractions talk about two fourths, three forths
Turn on metronome
group clap on whole note
clap on half note, quarter notes, and eighth notes
midi information to view notes
in note view - select enhanced timing to adjust the timing
just stay on the black keys then use enhanced timing
view math side, bar graphs look and then there is the musical note look
record violin just stay on black keys,
Music is great for teaching X Y graph
frequencies - singing solo and guitar solo are not done at the same time because they are on similar frequencies
Add sound effects to music track to give ambience

Frequency and the black keys

Build opportunities for kids to do stuff and give them pat on the back
Celebrate a C+not just A grades


Band sound in a video, your eyes can get away from it but bad sound stands out
use alternative audio recording devise and use clapper to set beginning
line up audio spike then eliminate back audio track

sfett.com student movies
flickschool.com
Ed Movies cineDLG.com
Marco Antonio Torres torres21@mac.com