Utilizing other adjustments with a computer based program during post-editing can add to your final production. The following video tutorials are here to help get you introduced to applying video effects.
Final Unit Assignment
You will have 3 classes to build a library of prerecorded background tracks to lay under footage shot around the school. The following areas are suggested places to start, you might also record auditorium audiences, band performances, indoor sporting events, class changes in the corridor between classes, and a multitude of other locations.
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Day 1 of 3 (CAFETERIA)
You will require a camcorder kit to complete the activity.
Production
Place the camcorder away from the walls, but not too close to tables in the foreground. Begin recording with an audio slate ( such as "Cafeteria, background, take one"). Tape at lease five minutes of background noise or longer. If major interruptions occur, re-slate and make additional takes.
Post Production
Load and audition the shot using Premiere. Identify all noises that are unique (like conversations, very loud dishes noises, etc.) and edit them out by cutting them at in - and out markers. Take each sound and create a separate sequence which will be saved as a .wav file format.
Repeat this process for a Sporting event, Presence Track (classsroom "room tone" - edited with individual voices cut out of the track), and a Walla track (have an even number of students chant "Walla" continuously and another group of students chant rhubarb-rhubarb-rhubarb continuously (telling everyone to speak at a moderate conversational level - record for at least 2 minutes.)
Final Unit Assignment
You will have 3 classes to build a library of prerecorded background tracks to lay under footage shot around the school. The following areas are suggested places to start, you might also record auditorium audiences, band performances, indoor sporting events, class changes in the corridor between classes, and a multitude of other locations.
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Day 1 of 3 (CAFETERIA)
You will require a camcorder kit to complete the activity.
Production
Place the camcorder away from the walls, but not too close to tables in the foreground. Begin recording with an audio slate ( such as "Cafeteria, background, take one"). Tape at lease five minutes of background noise or longer. If major interruptions occur, re-slate and make additional takes.
Post Production
Load and audition the shot using Premiere. Identify all noises that are unique (like conversations, very loud dishes noises, etc.) and edit them out by cutting them at in - and out markers. Take each sound and create a separate sequence which will be saved as a .wav file format.
Repeat this process for a Sporting event, Presence Track (classsroom "room tone" - edited with individual voices cut out of the track), and a Walla track (have an even number of students chant "Walla" continuously and another group of students chant rhubarb-rhubarb-rhubarb continuously (telling everyone to speak at a moderate conversational level - record for at least 2 minutes.)
Production Considerations:
1) Why is it useful to cut distinctive noises out of background tracks?
2) Why is it unnecessary to cut these sounds out of presence track?
3) Notice that the walla/rhubarb trick is so old that it has an official name: "crowd walla." How can just two nonsense words create the illusion of a crowd carrying on many different conversations?
1) Why is it useful to cut distinctive noises out of background tracks?
2) Why is it unnecessary to cut these sounds out of presence track?
3) Notice that the walla/rhubarb trick is so old that it has an official name: "crowd walla." How can just two nonsense words create the illusion of a crowd carrying on many different conversations?
Submitting Work
Upload all your completed sound tracks as a compressed folder to the assigned Google Classroom folder.
Upload all your completed sound tracks as a compressed folder to the assigned Google Classroom folder.