Week 6: Introduction to Audio

Here are resources for today’s class..

Sound in Radio and Film

War of the Worlds

Foley Sounds

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley_artist

A Prairie Home Companion: SFX/Rhubarb script, March 21, 2009

Fred Newman on Jane Pauley Show

Fred Newman ‘A Rumination’

Willhelm Scream
http://hollywoodlostandfound.net/wilhelm/

Group Audio Challenge

Form groups of 3 to 4 people, each will review an assigned 30 second section of the clip below from a Charlie Chaplin silent film “The Lion’s Cage”. Mute the audio, and use any real world object (or your own voice) to create a sound effect. Each person in the group must make at least one sound.

Radio Techniques

Using example of story by RadioLab
http://www.radiolab.org/2007/sep/10/

Working With Audacity

Download Audacity, a free open source audio editing software http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/
Download and install the plugin needed to save your Audacity sounds as mp3 files http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=install&item=lame-mp3
Create an account on Sound Cloud, a site used for audio Daily Creates http://soundcloud.com (if you have a smart phone, you may want to also get the SoundCloud app for recording audio)
br />See also Using Sound Cloud for Daily Creates
Create an account on Freesounds, a site for creative commons licensed sound effects http://www.freesound.org/