Audacity Children's Story

The students will be creating a new version of an existing Children's story in Audacity.  They will be finding a children's story being read on youtube.com.  They will convert that to a sound file and upload it into Audacity.  The students will be adding additional sound effects from Freesound.org and using Vocal Sound Effects to change the way the story is told.

 They will be graded as follows:

Audio Clip transferred from youtube ........................................................  4 points

At least 7 sound effects added to the story ................................................  7 points

At least 3 Vocal Effects used in the reading ..............................................  3 points

Professional Quality of End Product .......................................................... 6 points

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Total Points                                                                                                  20 points


This project is DUE AT THE END OF CLASS ON MONDAY!

Continuing the Quest with Audacity

This week the students will be entering their second to last week of Audacity.  The students have learned how to make a soundscape, create a unique song, and some basic manipulation techniques.  This week they will be learning how to manipulate vocal effects inside of audacity.  The students will learn some vocal manipulation techniques at the beginning of the week and finish the week by adding effects to a pre-read audio recording of a children's book.  The assignment will be posted on Thursday morning.  However, the students will be learning the techniques on Monday and Tuesday by exploring the following tutorials.

How to make a Demonic Voice




Chipmunk Voice/Pitch Manipulation





Adding Voice Effects in Audacity




Once you have finished the videos, take some time to explore the many different effects in Audacity.  Specifically, figuring out what each effect does and what you think you could do with it.  Make a Word Document of each effect and not what it is called, what it does, and how you think it could be used.  This list will be due via email by the end of the period on Tuesday.

Audacity Music Engineering Week

This week the students will be working on creating a MASH UP from a series of Music Choices.  They will be able to use any of the clips saved into the K-Drive, Robinson Productions, MASH UP Folder.

The students must use at least 3 of the selections from the folder and create a unique song with it. They may bring samples of music from home and remove the lyrics from it.  They will then insert these lyrics over the music they have created! They will need the following tutorials to successfully complete this Challenge!

Making MASH UPS Part 1




Making MASHUPS part 2



How to remove Vocals



 How to engineer a Song







Another Vocal Isolation Tutorial





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Manual Instructions for Vocal Isolation from Audacity Help Desk..

Using Audacity for vocal isolation

An Audacity user (Marco Diego) posted this technique on the Audacity Forum for using Audacity to attempt to isolate vocals; it will not work successfully in all cases.

It is sometimes possible to isolate vocals by using Audacity's Noise Reduction to capture the noise profile of a song that has had vocals removed, then run Noise Reduction with that profile on the original mix before vocals were removed.

1. Make a copy of your original stereo track
   1. Select the whole track (click in empty space in its Track Control Panel for example where it says "Hz")
   2. Copy the track with Edit > Copy
   3. Create a new stereo track with Tracks > Add New > Stereo Track
   4. Use Edit > Paste to make a copy of the original track in the new stereo track
2. Select the whole of the copied track (click in empty space in its Track Control Panel)
3. Remove the vocals in the copy by using Effect > Vocal Remover (for center-panned vocals)...
4. On a copy of the track remove the vocals as in Case 1 above using Audacity's Vocal Remover
5. The copied track should remain selected, so use Effect > Noise Reduction... and click on the Get Noise Profile button
6. Now select the original track (click in the space its Track Control Panel)
7. Use Effect > Noise Reduction... and click on the OK button
8. Delete the copied track (click in the [X] at the top left of its Track Control Panel)

The following may let you remove drums which are not centered but keep the vocals:

• Use the steps above to create a track with vocal isolation.
• Then import the original song into Audacity again and try this Nyquist plug-in elliptice.ny to move the bass frequencies to center.
• Then remove the drums from the center by inversion.
• Finally mix the vocals back in.

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The students will be graded as follows for this project.


Music Engineering of at least 3 clips ....................................................... 8 points

Audio Clip of Choosing with Lyrics Removed ....................................... 8 points

Professional Quality of Final Product ..................................................... 4 points

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Total Points Possible                                                                               20 points

Halloween Week with Audacity

This week the students will be creating a Scary Halloween Soundscape in Audacity.  The students will be watching the tutorials below and then creating their own mixes.

Their Scary Soundscape will be graded as follows:


Use of at least 8 different Sound Effects taken from freesound.org ........ 8 pts

A Soundscape clip that is a minimum of 4 minutes in length .................. 8 pts

Professionalism ......................................................................................... 4 pts

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Total                                                                                                            20 pts


Tutorail 1




Tutorial 2






Tutorial 3





Tutorial 4






Should be a fun week before Halloween.

Hello.........Audacity

We are officially moving beyond our Photoshop Unit.  The students will be diving into Audacity by watching the Tutorial below.  They will then be logging into freesound.org and begin downloading Sound Effects to give us a Class Bank to work out of.

freesound username:  SalkComputerApps2

Password:  student1

ADOBE Photoshop Final Project - DUE 10-20

Students will be completing their final projects this week.

Their final projects will display their skills in 5 different editing techniques in Photoshop.

They will be creating a Virtual Art Gallery.  Using Sketchup they will either build or download an Art Gallery to display 5 different pieces of work.

The work has to consist of 5 different photos and each photo has to include a different editing technique that we covered in class.  The art will be displayed inside of the virtual studio and a 3D virtual walk through will be conducted.

The students may either take their own photos or use any of the class bank of photos created in class.

They will be graded as follows:

25 points for the 5 edited Works of Art.
8 points for the Virtual Studio
3 points for the Virtual Walk Through
4 points for Professionalism
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40 points total for the project.

Sketchup Tutorial Series Below

Finish Name Badges, Start Andy Warhol Project

We are headed into the final week of Photoshop Work before the final project starts.  This week the students will be finishing their name badges and then beginning their Andy Warhol color manipulation project.  Once the students finish their Name Badge they will be printed off and the students will be able to go take a photograph of themselves or a friend to create the Andy Warhol pop art below.

 

The Andy Warhol Project will be graded as follows.

Ability to take a themed/staged photo for the Andy Warhol production ..................  8 pts
Ability to edit the photo down into its base state for editing ....................................  4 pts
Finished product with Andy Warhol Effects ..........................................................   3 pts
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Total Points                                                                                                             15 pts

When the students finish this project, they will be able to use their extra time to take some additional pictures and practice any of the photoshop effects they have learned to date!