Description
The course will explore the common theme of storytelling through the modalities of songwriting, scriptwriting, and copy writing for commercial purposes.
Course Student Learning Outcomes (CSLOs)
- Apply elementary techniques to craft lyrics to accompany and compliment the chords and melodies of their song(s), mutually strengthening both music and text.
- Create basic melodies using major and minor chords in the key of C major as a basis for telling a story through song.
- Structure songs, stories, voiceover narrations, and promotional material, emphasizing tension, release, conflict, and pacing, so that the readers' and listeners' interest is engaged and maintained.