Live
Students need to practice moving on and off of this in a calm, orderly, and concert etiquette manner.
What is the stage? (performance space)
Make sure to designate this for student submissions. Examples include .mov, .mp4, .vid
What is video file format?
What is the Topic?
Teaching students this informs them of proper behavior during a live or virtual performance.
What is Concert Etiquette?
This special greeting at the beginning may be coordinated and delivered by a school leader.
What is the welcome/introduction?
These heavy metal steps may need to be set up for groups of singers.
What are risers? (platforms)
Teacher selects this based on student interest, skill set, and teachable material.
What is Performance Repertoire?
This electronic resource provides applications for advanced project presentations that engage the students and the intended audience.
What is technology (Sountrap, Noteflight, iMovie, Flat, etc.)?
This physical/digital document is shared with the school community to announce the event.
What is a flyer/invitation/announcement?
This anxious feeling is often experienced by students and teachers on the day of The Big Reveal.
What is nervousness/stage fright?
This collection of folded papers contains the correctly spelled names of all performers as well as the title and composer of each performed selection.
What is the Printed Program?
Plan this virtual event by reserving a school based zoom/google meet link that is shared with the school staff, students and community.
What is the watch party? (World Premiere)
These scaffolded due dates are used to help monitor student progress throughout the project process.
What are soft and hard deadlines for submissions?
Doing this will allow you and your students to re-watch the event and reflect on what went well and what could be improved.
What is record the event?
Having nothing to do with clothes, this final run-through allows students to have the concert experience minus the audience.
What is a dress rehearsal?
Teach your students to engage the audience through this, eye and mouth movements that reflect the music's mood and meaning.
What is Facial Expression?
When you provide students these two types of tracks along with their recorded accompaniment, it will make your post-production editing less time consuming by setting the recording tempo and sound-marking the track for alignment.
What are anchor and click tracks?
What are Sources?
Normally made at a restaurant, do this with your Administration to be sure this is saved on your school's calendar for day/time and spacing needs.
What is make a reservation?
This assigned role runs the talks between performances. It can be the director, colleague or better yet, students.
What is an emcee/director of ceremonies?
Create performance ambience using this to transform the performance space into a thematic concert hall.
What is stage decor?
This must be modeled for students so they know how to correctly capture their performance for the best group result.
What is how to record?
Kick-off, effective pauses, eye contact, speaking tempo, deep breaths and a closer are techniques students should use for this.
What is Public Presentations? (Project Presentations)
This concepts starts with the product in mind and looks in reverse to plan out the process to help students meet deadlines and submission goals.
What is backwards planning?
This person runs the technological side of the event and will troubleshoot when there are issues.
What is an a/v person?