Ashley Grob, Monica Jablonski, Olivia Beutel

Mrs. Lazarski
Digital Media II- Period 4
22 May 2015
FINAL EXAM VIDEO Ashleys segment: 02:24, Monicas segment: 2:25-4:47 and
Olivias segment 4:48-end

Music Education Importance Documentary

Ashley-

**Various Background music selections

throughout**

Olivia fades up from black and is in a wide

shot in front of a tree.

Hello. My name is Olivia. Today were going to

talk about the importance of having an
education in music, as well as why music is
important to have in our lives in general. I will
be interviewing music teachers, students and
many more people as well as taking a look at
some of the statistics about music education.
Westwood Regional Jr./Sr. High Schools
music program is ______________________
____________________________.

Fades to a video of a choir class singing (2

wide shots)

Students singing beautiful notes

precious voices

Fades to logo Westwood Jr./Sr. High School

Chorus Student, Ashley G.
MS
(No questions asked back and forth to her is
shown on video. Only her responses)

Ive been in Chamber Singers, the honors

choir at Westwood since freshman year.
Chamber Singers is different than the regular
Concert Choir because we have to learn more
challenging music as well as the concert
choirs music. It is a select group so you have

to audition to be a part of it. Taking this music

class has allowed me to do many
performances out of school other than just the
standard winter/spring concerts and to be
challenged to read harder music, which was
something that Ive always struggled with prior
to being apart of Chamber.
Various shots of the choir singing and
transitions back and forth from these b-roll
clips in her interview.

Audio is Ashley Grobs interview and MAYBE

the choir singing in the background (Lightly).

Closure to the interview and choir shots by

fading back to Olivia (High Angle Shot)-- She
will be sitting on the grass.

Did you know that kids who study music tend

to have larger vocabularies and more
advanced reading skills than their peers who
do not participate in music?

Interview with student who studies music

(CU)

Tell them to say their first name, what classes

they take that are music based, possibly what
instrument they play or vocal part they are in
choir, anything else out of school they do for
music, etc. (OUR VOICES ARE NOT PLAYED)
Then we ask them (OUR VOICES ARE NOT
PLAYED) to explain how studying music has
benefitted them and in what way.

Interview a student who doesnt study music

(CU)

Tell them to say their first name and what other

activities they take part in (OUR VOICES ARE
NOT PLAYED) Do you regret not taking a
music-based class in school? Do you wish you
could go back and learn to play an instrument
(SOMETHING) etc?

Fades back to Olivia (CU)

Studies show that young children who take

music lessons show different brain
development and improved memory over the
course of a year, compared to children who do
not receive musical training. Additionally,
studying music not only will benefit you if you
decide to go into the music industry, but other
fields of study as well. Lewis Thomas, a
biologist, found that music majors comprise
the highest percentage of accepted medical
students at 66%. I talked to Ms. Forgione
about the benefits of music education of
children and teens as well as why music

education is beneficial to schools.

Monica
Fade to Ms. Forgione (MS)

Why is music so beneficial for children and

teens especially as their brains are still
developing? (OUR VOICES ARE NOT
PLAYED)
Why is a music education so beneficial to
schools? (OUR VOICES ARE NOT PLAYED)
Audio- Forgione talking.

Fade to Pat (MS)

As he is speaking, fade to a video of a
student playing an instrument.
Pat F., WHS Band Student (Senior)

How do you think youve changed as a

musician from freshman to senior year. (OUR
VOICES ARE NOT PLAYED)

Screenshot of Pats National Band

recognition that was on WWRSDs website

(He is describing what bands that he is apart

of)

Statistic shown on screen in text format

(Olivias voice-over) Schools with music

programs have an estimated 90.2% graduation
rate and 93.9% attendance rate compared to
schools without music education, which
average 72.9% graduation and 84.9%
attendance.

Fade to Lawrence (MS)

B-roll of disney world performance of band

What are some unique things that you do at

Westwood High School that other schools may
not do? (HAVE HIM MIRROR QUESTION)
Music in background.

OliviaOlivia shown on tape (Walking towards

camera in a WS)

So I asked some students and faculty of

Westwood High School for some synonyms on
how music makes them feel.

Various student/teacher shots saying

motivated or excited.

Students talking and audio.