Scratch
Intermediate
60 mins
Teacher/Student led
145 points
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Music Video

Embark on a creative journey to make your own music video using Scratch. Start by creating a new project, choose your favourite music from the provided files, and add it to your project. Play around with backdrops and sprites, adding code to animate them in sync with your music. Finally, let your creativity shine by adding unique effects and features to your video.
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    1 - Create a new Scratch project

    Go to the Scratch website and create a new project. You can delete the cat sprite.

    https://scratch.mit.edu/

    2 - Choose the music

    Included with this step are different music files. You can play them using the controls below and decide which one you want to use with your project. To download a music file right click on the link and choose 'Save link as...'.

    Song Genre Download
    Bay Street Billionaires

    Hip-Hop & Rap
    Space Age Hustle

    Hip-Hop & Rap
    Shine On

    Dance & Electronic
    One Time

    Dance & Electronic
    Sunset Dream

    Pop
    Crazy

    Pop

    Once you have downloaded the music file onto your computer, add it to your Scratch project by uploading it as a new sound.

    You can also use a music file of your own if you have one. Normally these are in the .mp3 file format.

    3 - Play the music

    Now let's add some code to play the music when we click on the green flag.

    Add the following code:

    when green flag clicked start sound (Shine On - Jeremy Black v)

    When you click on the green flag the music should start playing.

    4 - Choose some backdrops

    You can be creative as you want for the visual part of your music video. Here is one idea but you can come up with and try and do your own as well!

    Add some backdrops from the backdrop library to your project and then add the following code to switch onto a new backdrop every 3 seconds. Don't forget to delete the blank backdrop called 'backdrop1'.

    when green flag clicked start sound (Shine On - Jeremy Black v) forever wait (3) seconds next backdrop end



    5 - Add some sprites

    Choose a couple of sprites from the sprite library and program each one to do different things.

    Change costume
    when green flag clicked forever wait (3) seconds next costume end

    Change colour
    when green flag clicked forever wait (3) seconds change [color v] effect by (50) end

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