Audiojacks
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Activities
This lesson challenges listeners to convey an entire story through a single image. The Movie Poster must convey qualities such as tone, emotion, and a message. Other listeners are encouraged to guess the type of movie before the artist tells their story.
- Make sure no exterior sound is coming into the room.
- Play the Audiojack for the first time and close your eyes. Just listen. Let your imagination go and keep in mind that you will be creating a story based on what you hear.
- Play the Audiojack a second time and brainstorm. Focus on characters, location, conflict, plot, costumes, and point of view.
- After the Audiojack has been played a second time, work on creating a story. Keep it on repeat for 20 to 30 minutes and draw.
- When the time is up share your art and how it’s related to your story!
Each listener spends five minutes writing his or her story, then they trade stories with another listener and continue writing where that story left off. After five more minutes they trade stories with a different listener. The goal is for the finished stories to flow naturally and logically so listeners are challenged to be collaborative and develop their creative problem solving skills.
- Make sure no exterior sound is coming into the room.
- Play the Audiojack for the first time and close your eyes. Just listen. Let your imagination go and keep in mind that you will be creating a story based on what you hear.
- Play the Audiojack a second time and brainstorm. Focus on characters, location, conflict, plot, costumes, and point of view.
- After the Audiojack has been played a second time the listeners will now work on creating their story. For the next five minuets they will begin writing their story.
- Papers should be passed to the person to the right after the time is up. They will read what is already written and then continue the story as they see fit. This will repeat five more times for a total of 30 minutes.
- When the time is coming to a close notify the listeners that the Audiojack will be played only one more time.
- Return the paper to the original author that started it and have them read aloud and share with the rest of the participants and see how the story changed!
The ability to create a storyboard challenges students use of story and narrative. Students will use language, art and literacy skills.
- Make sure no exterior sound is coming into the room.
- Play the Audiojack for the first time and close your eyes. Just listen. Let your imagination go and keep in mind that you will be creating a story based on what you hear.
- Play the Audiojack a second time and brainstorm. Focus on characters, location, conflict, plot, costumes, and action… All the elements that make up a good story.
- After the Audiojack has been played a second time, work on creating a story. For the rest of the first session, write out the story or script. Focus should be on creating a beginning, middle and end. Choosing a voice is also key; what perspective is the story being told from. While this is going on, the Audiojack should be continually played.
- When your story is complete get a fresh sheet of paper and divide it into six squares. These will be the main scenes for their story.
- Let the same Audiojack play continually for the rest of the second session while you draw out your storyboard. Tip: Start with the first scene and then draw the last scenes landscapes. This will help lock in where their story is headed and then you can fill in the rest.
- When you’re done with your work, share the story, art and compare to what others came up with. You can even go shoot a video and make your Audiojack come to life!
Two listeners are selected to write their story outline in front of the room side by side with out looking at the others work. The room will see their story unfold before them and then when completed, the participants can compare their story with the other.
- Make sure no exterior sound is coming into the room.
- Play the Audiojack for the first time and close your eyes. Just listen. Let your imagination go and keep in mind that you will be creating a story based on what you hear.
- Play the Audiojack a second time and brainstorm. Focus on characters, location, conflict, plot, costumes, and point of view.
- After the Audiojack has been played a second time select two or more to head up to a wall that has a large surface for writing available.
- Participants will be creating an outline of their story in chronological order for others to see unfold live. The Audiojack will play for a third time and they will use their notes to create an outline for everyone to see.
- When the selection finishes have the participants step back to see the other work.
- Open the room up to discussion and share each story and where it came from.
Listeners will create a story based on the Audiojack that they hear. It should run at least 300 words and tell a complete story. Listeners are encouraged to experiment with the use of details, description, perception and tone to bring their ideas to life.
- Make sure no exterior sound is coming into the room.
- Play the Audiojack for the first time and close your eyes. Just listen. Let your imagination go and keep in mind that you will be creating a story based on what you hear.
- Play the Audiojack a second time and brainstorm. Focus on characters, location, conflict, plot, costumes, and point of view.
- After the Audiojack has been played a second time, work on creating a story. Keep it on repeat for 20 to 30 minutes and write.
- When the time is up, share your story!