Help me give my students the computer necessary that is capable of meeting their movie editing and scoring needs.
$6,545 goal
This project expired on December 8, 2019.
This project expired on December 8, 2019.
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This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My students come from different backgrounds and ethnicities. Our school is located in one of the diverse areas of Los Angeles.
The students' socioeconomic backgrounds range from well-to-do families to foster kids.
In the classroom, one can hardly tell who is who, except when it comes to who has what and who doesn't. I'm referring to supplies that students may bring from home, such as electronic devices that can be used in the classroom to complete certain projects and other tasks.
My Project
My keyboard and music technology class has progressed over the last few years from simply teaching the kids the principles of how to play the piano, (which involved teaching them the fundamentals of music theory, reading music notation and rhythm,) to music technology and movie scoring.
In music technology, my students learned how to connect their midi enabled keyboards to music software, such as GrageBand and SoundTrap, where they were able to record their songs, edit their notation, add and mix different tracks and create loops.
In movie scoring, students learned the basics of movie editing, such as cutting, trimming and pasting clips, adding multiple layers (picture in picture) and of course adding sound tracks. The sound tracks were mostly loops, ready made, or made by students through midi editing software.
There're always those exceptional kids who can do more and more. Advanced music students who are already proficient at reading and writing music are ready to write their own music scores to movie clips. I'm requesting this high end computer with a large screen that will enable my students to run multiple large applications at the same time. For example, students will be using Final Cut Pro to edit the movie, Photoshop to edit pictures inserted in the movie and most importantly using Finale, the world acclaimed music software, and route it with Logic Pro, to create their music score.
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