(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.
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
Man, this looks, er… sounds fun.
I can’t resist passing on this scene on foley from one of my favorite movies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSrmqyV7pYI
That’s so wild, Brian.
“it’s a wrap!…. We have ‘Heavens Gate at eight'”