(cross posted from 106tricks.net just because I am so excited about tonight’s ds106 in class activity)
This is the result of tonight’s in class ds106 challenge. As we are starting audio, I did a little explanation of the role of the foley artist in film and radio.
Students formed 5 groups, and each group was charged with creating sound effects for a specified 30 second segment of Charlie Chaplin’s In the Lion’s Cage. They could use any props in the room or their own body. I played the video back with the sound muted, and asked the groups to perform the effects live.
The video above was edited to overlay the audio I recorded. They did pretty damn good for only have 15 minutes to plan their sounds.
My only small disappointment was a lack of a Willhelm Scream.
My thanks for Scott Lockman with whom a skype conversation the other night generated the idea for this activity.
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Well done Alan. Sounds like the class had a good time working on this. So cool that you turn it in to a YouTube. It’s as though we were there.
I’ll bet you weren’t kicking any leaves on the way home after this one. Hope to hear how it all went down – either as Skype or a slice.
Thanks Scott! And Jim’s class also just did the same gig tonight.
Nope the leaves were untouched, I have a slice, am still a bit behind.
Thanks for the inspiration.
Very Cool, awesome choice of footage for this activity, have done similar things with different instruments and such, students really love this stuff
[...] This is a video from last night’s class which introduces my section of ds106 at UMW to audio. The class includes an overview of the power of sound, real-time student-produced foley, a look at some basic radio conventions, as well as a brief introduction to the open source sound editing application Audacity. It was a fun class, and you can see the foley work section 1 did last night, an assignment stolen shamelessly from idea of Scott Lockman’s that Alan Levine executed brilliantly the night before [...]
Man, this looks, er… sounds fun.
I can’t resist passing on this scene on foley from one of my favorite movies:
That’s so wild, Brian.
“it’s a wrap!…. We have ‘Heavens Gate at eight’”