Hi People
Being a photography, journalism major ,sound in film has always been my biggest weakness as a media teacher. Now, with the new criterion for ATAR I am wanting to do some more work on this aspect of production. To that end, is there anyone out there with any useful soundscape design actives they would like to share?
Regards Heather Owen
Hi Heather,
Here is a collection of YouTubes dedicated to Sound Design etc.
If you’re using DaVinci Resolve, you could also work through the Fairlight tutorials on the Blackmagic website. There are 7 video tutorials with media assets. You might find the first two lessons are enough – Intro to Audio and Intro to Sound Design.
I hope some of this is useful.
Cheers,
Owen.
Hi Heather,
One of the best soundscape activities we have done is to give students a sound free video – we chose paper planes, an animation) and students have to record, sample from music or internet sources or use Logic Pro or Protools to add the audio track in.
It really engages students.
Regards,
Clive
Hi Everyone,
Looks like the material I sent out yesterday was not accessible for everyone.
I've attached a Google Drive Link below:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1V89OXLDojyL_ifPbSop2xhOZoKmaZqnW?usp=sharing
You'll find all my resources here for this year (I will add more as I go along).
The soundscape exercise (aka Musicless Music Videos) can be found in the Year 8 Media folder inside Task 1.
If there are any issues, please let me know.
Rock on!
Gooch!
Hi Lara,
Check out the National film and sound archives. Good teaching resources available too.
Hi Heather,
The first thing I normally do is teach the students the power of sound design and why sound designers are such an important crew member. We look at Ben Burtt as a great example of this.
We analyse a few different scenes but look at this scene from Munich in particular: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RZzTFOSHKc&ab_channel=FFMovieClips
Here’s a resource to help you teach it https://nofilmschool.com/2018/03/watch-steven-spielberg-art-sound-design-munich
Then we analyse the sound design from productions from previous years (good, bad, and outstanding) and the reasons why. I try to really make sure they can hear the differences. With some films I show, the sound design just feels empty, whereas some other examples have issues with the recording (hiss, hum, volume, clarity of dialogue etc.).
Then I teach them all the tools and tricks in Premiere Pro and get them to complete a sound design task where I remove the audio from a montage of a film (one that cuts to at least 3 different locations), then I supply them with a bunch of sfx to get them started and they need to fill in each missing sound, down to the rustle of the clothes, breathing, birds chirping, crickets etc. Then I teach them how to use an audio recording device (zoom h5 or similar) and they go out and record the foley (footsteps and any other parts that are still missing).
Then we do a peer assessment and feedback session at the end.
Then, before they start editing their major productions, I run a couple of workshops on
how to remove unwanted sounds in post-production using Adobe Audition (hum, hiss, a plane flying over-head, a dog barking in the background of the shot, an air conditioner droning, and a few more).
How to apply a high pass and low pass filter
Sorry if it seems a bit overwhelming, but I hope this can give you a few ideas for what you can do with them, and for anyone else out there who doesn’t know where to start.
Cheers,
Andrew Quesnel