This winter camp was great. Students made their own lip-sync music videos.
It got them practicing English while doing something fun and engaging.
I did this for two one-week camps. Ideally, two weeks would be better, but one was just enough. I also did this during the winter time. This activity requires students to be outside A LOT so the this project is better suited to the summer. This activity requires students to do a lot of work outside of class, but if they are properly motivated you should not have any problems.
Students used their own cameras (2 or 3 per group, point and shoots and iPhones but not cell phones as the quality is really bad) and competed against each other to earn points by including certain people or places in their video. Basically each line of the song needed to be with a different person or in a different place. (See the point sheet attached.)
At the end of the week, we had a pizza party. This party was set in motion at the beginning. During the second day, I collected 3,000 won from each student, and told them the winners (i.e team with most points) would get their money back and the "losers" would pay for the food. It was well accepted and I only had to shell out a little money for the food. It was well worth it!
There are numerous ways you can set this camp up, I'll outline how I did it.
Day 1: Part 1 - Introductions game, how to talk about music, watch some music videos and talk about them (~50 mins). Part 2 - introduce music video project; form teams; get students thinking about songs, roles, and ideas.
Day 2: camera check, money collecting, filming
Day 3: filming
Day 4: filming, editing (we used AVS which is really simple to use and easily found online)
Day 5: party!
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