One of my favorite activities to spark a budding music mind is the “Pictures at an Exhibition” project. If you’ve read any of my blogs before, you know how I feel about music and sound-they’re in a deeply committed relationship, and will be FOR-E-VER! If you want to start kids on the track to audio, get them excited about music as early as you can. You don’t really need to understand everything about sound to use these resources, but checking them out might also teach you a thing or two….so, BONUS! Elementary Years If you’re the drama teacher for your school and also live in a world of “sound is scary, don’t make me do it,” this blog is for you. This blog will feature some great resources for teaching sound to kids. I suppose this exposure is better than nothing, but what we need to do is get kids hooked on sound from the very beginning of the process so they can understand what they’re doing instead of mimicking the few motions that they’ve been taught. A dad and maybe the school’s technical director would run sound for the shows during the performance, and maybe let a kid stand behind the console, hit “GO” in QLab, or help put mics on other kids. Someone’s dad would watch some YouTube videos, come in while the kids were in class, and throw together some kind of sound system that would be enough to get by.
“Who ran sound for all of these musicals that you did in middle and high school,” I would ask.
I was always told by my students that sound is scary, or too hard, or wasn’t ever taught in high school and middle school when these students first burst into the theatre world. I can count on my two hands, the number of students that have come in with sound as their focus, and, by the way, less than half were women. Students spend two years in this conservatory learning as many elements of technical theatre as possible, and generally, can declare one area as their focus.
For the past ten years, I’ve been the sound faculty for a technical theatre conservatory.
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