I wanted to share with you all, a fantasic lesson I had with Andee Collard born out of the last CPD Learning Breakfast on Visual Literacy. Last Thursday, my Year 8 class listened to 3 very different pieces of music and created art work to represent the mood. The 3 pieces of music were - Metallica - can't remember what the song was as it was angry and aggressive - the artwork was wild with lots of colour and swirly and spiky shapes; the next was Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield as we have been studying Horror Music and how music can create tension/suspense - the art work consisted of weapons made from cardboard, bold and bright blocks of colour that were very different to the first piece and the final piece of music was by an Icelandic composer whose name I can't remember but it was a very melancholy piece of piano and cello music - the artwork was made up of much lighter colours and pieces of clight coloured paper delicately twisted and attached! There was very little teacher direction just an opportunity for the students to express themselves and hopefully make the link of how powerful music can be on the emotions of the listener - hence linking back to our project about creating music for a horror scene - maybe after this session they'll be able to see it in terms of the art as well? We were supported by Andee's Sixth form students and I can say 100% that every student took something new away from that lesson. This collaboration came from Andee's learning breakfast on Visual Literacy. Thanks Andee!
I'll post some photos of student work here shortly.
Jenni Tyler Maher
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