PR E PA R ATORY S C HO OL
“Love it’s Around the World” showcases
student songwriting and performance skills
By Amelie Day (6D)
Once we had finished recording and editing
the final production, we came up with a
plan to release it to the world. We held
a presentation at Assembly and a public
Facebook live video before it was released.
In Term 1 the GTV crew (Year 5/6 STRETCH
Media students) decided to write and produce
an original song and music video called “Love
it’s Around the World”. We based our song
on this year’s Preparatory School themes of
Love and Character Strengths. Each verse was
written about a different character strength
that we thought suited our school and the
chorus was about love.
“I enjoyed sharing our video with people on
Facebook and YouTube as was a first for me
and it was really cool,” reflected Greta. Our
live video took place just before “Love it’s
Around the World” was posted to Twitter,
YouTube and Facebook. The release was a
very exciting stage of the project and I think
the whole crew really enjoyed watching their
hard work finally going live.
During the writing and recording process we
worked with Mr Kruger and Mr Edwards,
two of our awesome music teachers here at
Guildford Grammar School.
“I enjoyed recording and playing the music
because everyone got to be a part of it,” said
Greta, a member of the GTV crew. Sofia,
our lead singer for the verse on kindness,
said that she really enjoyed working with the
professionals to improve the lyrics.
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graphic designer. He gave us a professional
insight into filming music videos and had
many suggestions to improve the video.
“Mr Kruger and Mr Edwards had lots of
experience writing, recording and making
music,” she added, “they taught us different
ways to write lyrics and improve them.” “I loved the filming, mostly because it was
something I was new to and it was just a
really good experience,” said Gemma.
“Mr Pieloor gave us the opportunity to film
with higher quality cameras and this led to a
significant improvement in the overall quality
of the production.”
After extensive planning and preparation, we
had a clear image of what we wanted to film.
We were lucky enough to have the assistance
of Mr Pieloor, the school’s videographer and A massive thank you to Mr Underwood and
Ms Ileana who helped us to record the lyrics
in the Senior School’s purpose-built recording
studio.
One of the goals for the project was to share
our video and our message all around the
world. In just a few minutes, the video had
been viewed in many countries including
New Zealand, USA, England and France.
“I loved how we started from scratch and
made a totally original song and music
video,” said Ursilla. The video was a fun and
interesting project that we will all look back
on with fond memories in years to come.
You can watch the video on our YouTube
channel at www.youtube.com/
watch?v=B4q7mJGWloA.
Amelie Day (6D)