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​Video Direction as an Application of the Study of Music

​Part 4: Student Productions, Phases 5–6 (Ball State University)

Student Productions

Phase 5:  Songwriting Students Create Music Videos

Video Example 19: "Tools" by Adam Jefferies. The repetition of the title line is reinforced by repeating the same show of the three vocalists.

Video Example 20: The Indigos involved many of their friends, inspired by BSU alumnus Kevin Ray and his band Walk the Moon, whose one-shot video led to being signed to a record deal and hit song, "Shut Up And Dance With Me."

Video Example 21: "Step Off" by Myron Fett (bass) and Mike Tabor. There is repetition with shots of guitar playing, air drums, and his cat.

​Video Example 22: Keenan Pfotenhauer made an audio and video recording of the worship team at Union Chapel singing the song "Alive" for his capstone project.

Video Example 23: Play through video of "Better Than This" that Sam Gordon performed, recorded, and mixed in the BSU Music Media Production studios for a song by his band, The Orphan, The Poet. ​

Video recorded by Jared Sulllivan.

Phase 6:  Conducting Students Direct Camera Operator/Switcher

Recording at Ball State University of a performance of Die Fledermaus, recorded by a student that was not familiar with the production.

Here we see a series of wide shots. The operator can't do much more if they don't know the score in advance and aren't sure who is going to get the next solo.

​Video Example 24: Unprepared recording from Die Fledermaus

Conducting student on the left working from a score he had previously prepared to direct the music production student on the right on which camera angles to get and when to switch from one to another.

​Video Example 25: Prepared recording two students made of the Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band

This is how the stream looked, including a variety of camera angles focused on featured sections of the ensemble.

​Video Example 26: Excerpts showing results of student directing team

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