music video lesson help

[kschor]

I need some help. I am working on a music video lesson plan and am having no luck. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Monica]

We had the kids do the finance behind music videos. They had to cost it out. You guessed it, I'm a math teacher.

[Unregistered]

You can have your students pick a popular song (or an older one that they wouldn't have necessarily have seen the video on MTV yet) and then work on a storyboard for it. You have them break the song up into it's components and start dissecting it and then discuss how they can demonstrate it visually.

[Unregistered]

I have a journal/homework assignment where the students watch MTV or VH1 or CMT and rate a music video (you could watch several and compare and contrast). The focus can be anything really, but I have them look at the messages that the video sends about body image, topic, behavior, etc.

[Unregistered]

I start the lesson out with the first "theatrical" video created - Michael Jackson's Thriller. We study the video, looking at race, gender, violence, sex, and materialsim. Where there is any, the students take note. We also take a look at parts of the "making of Thriller". It goes into the importance of choreography, computers, and make-up.

We discuss the music, as well. Noting that Thriller is still the best selling album of all time.

[Unregistered]

I use music to teach about history all the time. What is your subject and topic?