EARWORM'S AV BLOG
Darren, Founder of EARWORM shares his thoughts on LIGHT and SOUND in schools. He has a unique perspective as a teacher with 15 years experience and over 20 years experience in the Audio Visual, Music and Film Industries.
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WORK SCHOOL SMARTER, NOT HARDER
School assemblies and showcases bring the school community together. These are a few issues I repeatedly experienced during my teaching years:
1. Old school sound and lighting systems require a crew of teachers to run the systems, which often became a problem as they'd have to have their classes covered, disrupting the teacher and their students.
2. Sometimes there wouldn't be a dedicated hall, so we'd have to lug the heavy audio and lighting system to the gymnasium and set it up for a school assembly. This a risk to staff Work Health Safety. After that we would have to run sound and light checks, making it a very time consuming process. Then we'd have to pack it all down and lug it back into storage.
I believe schools should work smarter, not harder.
The solution is having our custom automated SMART SOUND+LIGHT system, no rehearsals are required because everything is automated. A flick of the switch will turn on the pre-set light settings and auto-mix music and vocals. Then there's the added bonus of renting your hall out to the community knowing failsafes are built into the system preventing damage.
In under an hour teachers can learn how to use the SMART SOUND+LIGHT system. We also provide LIGHT+SOUND teacher professional learning programmes and workbooks.
Contact us today to organise your FREE site inspection and quote.
- Darren, Founder of EARWORM PRODUCTIONS
EARTH HOUR EVERY HOUR
'WWF’s Earth Hour is the world’s biggest movement to protect our planet. Every year hundreds of millions of people around the world in more than 7,000 cities in over 190 countries take part by switching off for 60 minutes as a symbolic gesture of solidarity to show they care about our planet's future. Individual actions can benefit our planet, while symbolically demonstrating support for a renewable future for our country, and for the world'. - Earth Hour
EARWORM's SMART LED LIGHTS use 1/8th of the power of a traditional incandescentstage lighting system. By switching to our SMART LED LIGHTS you'll be saving energy, money and helping the environment.
Get in touch for a free site visit and quote.
- Darren, Founder of EARWORM PRODUCTIONS
STEM SPOTIFY POPSTARS
You can't escape technology these days so why not embrace students' enthusiasm for technology and incorporate that passion into STEM education. Give students hands on experience in composing and recording their own music in a custom built recording studio.
Empower your students and give them the best shot at their HSC compositions with professional quality audio recording. As a qualified Music High School Teacher I've seen students enjoy the art of composing, recording and mixing their own songs, and even designing their own album art covers!
Get in touch and let us design and build your school an amazing music recording studio.
- Darren, Founder of EARWORM PRODUCTIONS
PODCASTS & PROJECT BASED LEARNING
Project Based Learning is a great way to engage students, especially when it has a real world connection. Podcasts are a wonderful way to inspire students to research, write and speak about their passions and views on life. Make STEM inspiring for our next generation with a state of the art podcast recording studio. Revolutionise the school newsletter with a school podcast! Create our next social media stars with a custom built podcast studio. As a teacher myself it's amazing to see students grasp the technical aspects of a podcast recording and see them create, record and edit podcasts for the school community and families to enjoy.
NazCast is a brilliant example of a school embracing Podcast Project Based Learning:
'New to our College in 2022, is the Podcasting Program for students in Years 4-6, run in partnership with Arch D Radio & Podcasting. Students with a passion for Digital Technologies have been meeting for sessions after school once a week at the Findon Campus to plan, storyboard, script-write, interview and record their very own podcasts. Encouraged to pursue their interests and follow their passions, each group of 'podcasters' have chosen topics from the depths of their wildest imaginations - from sporting moments and funny cat videos to book reviews and nostalgic childhood memories. Learning how to "hook the listener" has been a big focus of the sessions led by James Meston of Arch D Radio. Students have journeyed through the process as content writers and planners, who have learnt how to execute ideas with professional equipment to facilitate audio recording and editing. Students have also learnt about publishing ethics including copyright'.
Emmanuel Catholic College's podcast, Illume is recorded and produced by their Emmanuel student AV Team - what a brilliant experience for students to learn real world skills and create engaging content on contemporary educational topics.
If you've feel inspired by the benefits of Podcast Project Based Learning, get in touch and we can organise a free site visit and quote on a custom podcast studio to suit you.
- Darren, Founder of EARWORM PRODUCTIONS
SCHOOLS SPECTACULAR EVERY DAY
We all know 'the Schools Spectacular is a world-class arena production and one of the most significant annual events of its calibre anywhere in Australia and arguably the world. From its ability to produce national and international stars to its role in promoting inclusiveness and reconciliation, the Schools Spectacular has no peer'. - The Arts Unit NSW Govt.
To foster and inspire students and teachers' creativity a school needs to provide the right equipment. We specialise in audio visuals - creating tailor made automated sound and stage light installations to add that wow factor to any assembly, performance or school showcase. Make the ordinary extraordinary with our SMART SOUND+LIGHT systems with a simple push of a button! Eliminate the need for a teacher to be fully trained on a complicated light and audio system.
Great lighting and audio is the back bone of any performance, inspiring student and audience engagement. As a 15 year experienced High School & VET Entertainment teacher I can say that our performances and school showcases were spectacular with beautifully crafted light shows and perfectly mixed music and vocals. Students (especially those with stage fright) thrived when the spectacular audio visuals were added to their performances. It gave them a boost of confidence knowing that their performances looked comparable to what they'd seen on the TV of their favourite singers and dancers.
- Darren, Founder of EARWORM PRODUCTIONS
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