Field Trips Starring Music Production Lab

"Produce and star in your own music video that you can take home with you."

Music videos are short stories that convey a message of hope, insight, and anything that your imagination can create. At Zeum: San Francisco's Children's Museum, the music video genre is just one of the many activities found within the walls and high ceilings of the interactive museum. From picking out the right props to writing the perfect music, students are able to create their own works of art.

The music video field trip allows students to produce videos featuring their own poetry and music. Before and during the field trip, Zeum educators encourage students to engage in every aspect of the process. Students work in groups to brainstorm a concept, create original poetry, digitally compose original music, choreograph dance routines and perform and film the final project.

In just two hours, students are developing and enhancing skills that help them understand literacy, math, technology, critical thinking, collaboration, and decision-making skills. At the end of the day, students take home these skills and a DVD of their music video to share with their family and friends.

Check out these examples:
A group of students from Hercules High School in Contra Costa County take on a serious issue that is plaguing all schools: budget cuts.

At St. Paul's School in San Francisco, a group of sixth graders create a fun way to remember the order of math operations. PEMDAS - parenthesis, exponants, multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction.