Development of Video Content (1/2)

Below are some examples of how I have been developing my video content. I will constantly update this blogpost as new pieces of development are created.

Development 1: Idea Recording 1 (rough)

Mnemonic exercises prove greatly beneficial when teaching rhythm, regardless of the age of students. With this in mind, I spent lots of time developing my creative practices to include mnemonic exercises. Below is one of my first development videos. This video was created to demonstrate ideas, rather than to reflect what the final development would mirror.

Development 2: Jessie J Play-along (backing rhythm)

The idea to include music from outside the pipe band genre has since been dropped from the project. However, this was an important step in my creative development process which aided in my decision to focus entirely on the pipe band style content. This was to ensure that those taking the class engaged interest directly with the pipe band genre as opposed to other styles of music.

Development 3: Scotland the Brave Play-along.

The below video is a second development study for the Scotland the Brave play-along idea. This time, I decided include a full snare drumming score as a 'backing track' and do a split screen showing the simple play-along rhythm alongside the full snare drum score. This development showed more promise than the initial idea as it gave the pipe band context I was looking for, however I decided the 50/50 split screen was too confusing and this would be removed in a later development study.

Development 4: Lesson Videos (Introductions).

Detailed accounts of recording techniques can be found in "Recording, Mixing and Editing ( 2/2)"

As the project continued to develop, I began to focus on producing final developments of a high production quality. I firstly learned how to combine high quality audio with video in Logic; more information on this creative process can be found in the blog post "Recording, Mixing and Editing (2/2)". I then imported videos created in logic alongside other video content to create the introductions for each of the 3 PBDB lessons. Below is a screenshot of the video editing process for lesson 2's introduction and a link to the completed introduction video.

Development 5: Final Play-along/ Mnemonic Videos.

Detailed accounts of recording techniques can be found in "Development of Video Content ( 2/2)"

The final development of the play-along and mnemonic rhythm videos was different than expected at the outset of the PBDB project. As most of the lesson content required me to speak over the top of drumming, whilst demonstrating all activities physically, I decided that it would be best to keep the recording process as simple as possible without much clutter in the shot. This meant that the audio for the first two lessons is almost entirely the original audio captured on the camera. This made the recording of the lesson content much easier and avoided over-complicating the creative process.

The editing process, as eluded to previously, required lots of 'on the job' learning. My creative practices developed continuously throughout the editing process as I learned more about editing and the iMovie software. I incorporated the project logo, headings, transitions and audio fading into each video where appropriate. Again, inspiration was taken from many YouTube music teaching videos designed for kids, most notably Drumeo's series "The Rhythmic Adventures of Captain Carson".

Below is a screenshot of the video editing process and a finished teaching video.