The one assignment that we all had to do this week was recreating the Foley assignment that we made during audio week.  Then we each got assigned thirty seconds of the video to make up our own audio for and this week we had to take audio and add in back in with the video to make a bit of a different story.

Here is the original video just to jog your memory:

For my audio clips I choose to use Karissa’s, for part two I used Brooke’s, for part three I used mine, for part four I used Kristen’s, and for part five I used Cole’s, and for part six I used Kaitlyn’s.  After picking my audio clips I went ahead and downloaded them to my computer. I then ripped the youtube video from above from keepvid.

I then imported the video into iMovie.  I then muted the volume volume of the original video.   I then imported each of the thirty second sound clips that I had originally downloaded.  I then added them in on at a time making sure to line them up side by side.  The first five fit perfectly without issue.  The sixth one was a little bit funny though.  I had to push it back a few seconds to make it fit correctly so there is a small amount of dead space before the final clip.

I then added in a title sequence for my clip.  I decided to add my title in on top of the picture to have it flow well.  I then added credits.  I credited both myself for making it and everyone whose parts I used.  I then went back and added the sound back into the parts without sound.  I had considered using my own music but I had a hard time finding something that fit well.

Overall this wasn’t too hard of process.  I think I had dreaded it a bit more than I needed too.

Here is my Foley video.  Hope you enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5kJt00icdo&feature=youtu.be

This video was based off an assignment we did a few weeks before these past 2 weeks.

I put my own music to the silent film that Charlie Chaplin did.  Using foley from my classmates and movie maker I was able to piece it all together.  The spin I took on was how “bright” people are in scary situations.  I did this by adding text and sarcasim to the clip.

I enjoyed making this video as well as watching it.  I think the twist I put on it is easy to understand and fun to watch.  If I were to do it again I think I would find a wider variety of music and sounds for the background to mimic the film so more.

Finally it all gets put together! A few weeks ago (it seriously seems like an eternity ago) we had to create our own sound effects for a Charlie Chaplin video, but we had to do it Foley style. Watching the video now, I was very glad that I was born in July and had to only do the first 30 seconds. Now for this video assignment, I faced the challenge of creating audio for the whole entire film by using my students sound effects to re-tell the story.

I found myself wondering how someone could possibly retell a story that has already been told. I mean the visual part can’t change, and we only have a few selections to pick from with each audio (if we even had any). So the reality of it all was the background music. So what vibe was I going to go for? A dramatic one of course! What?? Me? Dramatic??? You don’t say.

So I googled “dramatic classical music” I found O Fortuna by Carl Orff and I loved it for what I was trying to do. The only problem was that it was too short! However, it so happened that the music ended at an opportune moment, it’s like it was meant to be! So I was looking for clips of it on YouTube and ended up finding a concert that played another Carl Orff song after that was perfect for the mood. Seriously, it’s like it just said “Princess Karissa play me and use me!” All I had to do was cut out the applause (although I was pretending they were clapping for my awesome find), and I was good to go for the background music, now I just needed the sound effects.

I really enjoyed seeing everything that the students have to offer, I love checking out my fellow classmate’s work! I just really enjoy how the same 30 seconds can be seen so much differently to everyone doing the assignment, and expressed that way too. It’s just a cool thing to think about. So when it came to picking between all of these sound effects I ended up getting really excited with ones with talking. I’m not sure why, but it really just seemed to add a new perspective to the story so you could hear what he was thinking or saying.

With that being said, for the first 30 seconds I picked Kelsie’s clip, for the second 30 seconds I used Brooke’s clip, for the 3rd 30 seconds I used Brittany’s clip, and for the 4th 30 seconds I picked Kristen’s clip. Even though I am writing my post late, I actually did this video last week (I just haven’t had time to write things up recently), so the 5th and 6th sound clips had nothing, so I let the music tell the storytelling which I think actually went well.

Looking back at this assignment I was really pleased with how it turned out, and I do think that I was able to tell another story by using sounds.

Thanks for reading,

Princess Karissa

Almost a month ago we had an assignment to make some Foley sounds for a section of the Charlie Chaplin video “A Lion’s Cage“. I was responsible for the section between 2:31-2:55. I made my sounds and (at the time) they matched up with the video just about right.

Fast forwards this this week and we had to put all the sounds together with the video. The first step to this assignment was to download it from youtube and convert it to an MP4, I used my favorite KeepVid program to make this happen. I then put it into iMovie and removed the audio from it. I went to each of the sections 1,2,3,4,5,6. Initially when i went to Section 6 (which was my timeframe) nothing was there, which was very confusing. Long story short, I somehow saved my foley into section 2. I felt terrible, because I know people made their videos without section 6. But as I’ll explain later, it might have been for the best.

I picked which sounds I wanted to download.

• Section 1: Karissa
• Section 2: Brooke
• Section 3: Dylan
• Section 4: Kristen
• Section 5: Cole
• Section 6: Me Ended up using music

After downloading them i started to put them into iMovie. They all matched up so perfectly (great job everyone). Then I got to my section… OH THE IRONY. I couldn’t get my part to match up at all. I have no idea why, because like I said, it matched up when I made it a couple weeks ago. It was extremely frustrating, we are talking I was ready to punch a wall and cry at the same time (promise I’m not a violent person!). So I just decided to add music to the scene, the original music that was played during 2:31-2:55 and it worked great. At this point i just had to add a title and credits. Here’s my work in iMovie:

And here is the movie, itself:

So here’s the story:

It was a hot summer day and the circus finally had a day off. Mufasa (the lion) has happily basking in the summer heat and planned to snooze all day long. He fell into a deep sleep and began to dream… He heard footsteps and door slams and then he saw a man with a mustache and crazy hair just standing there with a bewildered look on his face. Mufasa heard a dog bark, a women’s voice saying “are you okay?” It sounded like they were whispering and then he heard water splashing. At this sound, Mufasa woke up and realized that this wasn’t a dream, but there really was a man in his cage. But he was still sleepy, so he stumbled over and sniffed the man. Yuck! He smelled like elephant poop. Mufasa couldn’t be near him a second more and decided he really just wanted to sleep, so he laid down and rolled around until he got comfortable; he then drifted off into dream land again, or so he thought. He heard the woman and man speak again, he heard the door open a bit and the open say “what are you doing? That’s a real lion, you need to get out of there.” At this point Mufasa heard footsteps coming toward him. He looked up and starred at he elephant poop smelling guy in front of him. Mufasa was just trying to get some sleep on his one day off and he was not getting that. Mufasa was mad. So he did what lions do best. He left out a big ROARRRRRRRR! That sent the elephant poop guy flying out of the cage and the women shut the door immediately after. Finally, Mufasa was able to sleep in peace.

The End!

I hope you enjoyed my take on Charlie Chaplin’s The Lion’s Cage!