Digital Multimedia
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Penguin Records is a student
run record company. The board of directors are teachers and folks
from the industry. Other than that all of the positions in the
company are manned by the students.
Now for the hard part. YOU, yes you, have to work. There will be times that you hate me. That is ok. You will be learning: Songwriting And how all of those work together. |
This class has been turned into an ROP class. This means that we will be working everyday for about 2 hours. For those of you that are not sure of this type of time frame...remember that you will probably get about 1 1/2 hours of actual practice a day. This will increase your rate of learning and beating the learning curves for several of the things that you will be required to learn throughout the year.
We are looking forward to this grand experiment. It will change several times throughout the first few weeks and then again throughout the year. We are the first high school in the nation to work a class like this from this point of view. We will run this class like a business; a record company actually.
We are working on the first of our sponsors, Eden Electronics (Bass Amplification). We have almost half of the recording equipment that we need, we have opened a dialogue with a couple of other sponsors, and have been given 4 business computers by the district. The folks at ROP, thanks Marla, are going to help us with several of the other needs that we have.
You will be responsible for 6 to 8 cover tunes and at least 3 original tunes. Once you have begun to work through your writing skills you will begin to compose songs for your CD. Each "band" will have a 3 song CD single and one video to go in their reel. The class as a whole will make a Compilation CD and a Compilation DVD as our culminating event (end of year project. Further, you will be required to perform with a randomly chosen band in the fall, and twice with a band of your choosing in the spring. The spring band will be your recording, video, performance band...so make your choices wisely.
While you are all losing your minds trying to get your "groove" going you will be hounded by the business folks, the art folks, the recording engineers, the live engineers, and the board of directors. Nice.
This is not about the one thing that you do. This about all the things that you need to do.
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As members of the music department there are things that you remember.
1.
Should you not perform at a required performance (this class only has two
throughout the year) you will fail the class for the semester
2. With a
doctors note you will be allowed to make up your grade by writing a
2500 word essay (APA format) on a subject of the department's
choosing, attending a local college / university / professional
performance of the departments choosing, and connecting the two parts
together. You have one week to get that finished.
3. Without a doctors
note you will be allowed, as required by Ed Code) to make up
your grade by writing a 5000 word essay (APA format) on a subject of
the department's choosing, attending a local college / university /
professional performance of the departments choosing, get a program
for the performance, get the conductor to sign that program, interview
three players/singers (with a signature on the program), connecting
all the parts together. You have one week to get that finished. OR
Sing/play your parts for the show in front of the department (at a
time scheduled by you and accepted by the department) for all of your
parts in the performance that you did not attend.
There is no way to make up a performance. But, we are required to allow you to make up your grade for missing a required performance.
Scripted by Mr. Murray.
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[RLHS
Music Department].
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Revised: July 18, 2009.