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1 Sound Terminology Soundtrack Location sound (also known as production sound or direct sound) All the different layers of sound used within a film, including location sound, dialogue, sound effects (FX), Foley sound, and musical score. Sound recorded during production (filming). Dialogue Silence Sound FX Foley sound Musical score Diegetic sound Non-diegetic sound Contrapuntal sound Sound produced by characters speaking. A lack of audible sound or presence of sounds of very low intensity, often used in film for dramatic effect or to give the audience a breather after climactic scenes. Recorded sound added to the location sound in post-production (editing). Sound recorded live to add to the track to enhance aspects of the sound, eg a door creaking, footsteps. Music added to the soundtrack. Sound that comes from the film world; those sounds that you would hear if you were a character in the film world. Sounds from outside the film world, that characters within the film world would not be able to hear. Sound that contrasts strongly with the image that you see on screen. Teaching Literacy Through Film

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3 Our resources are designed to be used with selected film titles, which are available free for clubs at Worksheet Teaching literacy through film Storyboard Template intofilm.org

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Garageband is a pretty easy way of recording your own music on an ipad.

This guide has been designed to provide a basic overview of the process of creating a soundtrack in Garageband.

com/uk/support/mac-apps/garageband Here s the Garageband app icon on your home screen.

5 Garageband is a pretty easy way of recording your own music on an ipad. You can build up your soundtrack by layering separately recorded pieces of music. This guide has been designed to provide a basic overview of the process of creating a soundtrack in Garageband. For more detailed support with using Garageband, check out the Garageband Help page on the Apple website at apple.com/uk/support/mac-apps/garageband Here s the Garageband app icon on your home screen. A list of any songs you ve made before will appear. Click on the plus sign in the top left to start a new project. This will be the first screen that pops up, swipe across to choose your instrument. intofilm.org 2

It can be tricky to replicate a drum beat with your fingers on the kit. Tap this button to switch to classic drum machine. The Undo button is very useful if you make a mistake.

6 You also have the option of keyboard, guitar, and some 'smart' instruments, which can create a 'groove' at the touch of a button. The current version offers 'smart' strings, guitar, drums and keyboard. These are all good for coming up with something quick and full-sounding. It can be tricky to replicate a drum beat with your fingers on the kit. Tap this button to switch to classic drum machine. The Undo button is very useful if you make a mistake. Tap the Red button to record and the Stop button to stop (this will only flash when you re recording). Metronome is very handy to if you need a count-in, click to keep your recording in time. When you tap the Mixing icon you ll bring up a number of options that are quite self-explanatory. The main one you ll use is track volume as you can use this to balance the volume of individual tracks to balance your piece. There are other effects like echo and reverb here. Echo will create an echo on that track to the level you choose and reverb adds a sustain to the individual sounds. Both of these can add to the atmosphere of the piece. intofilm.org 3

Amplifier setting (jack icon) is good for getting crunchy, echoey edges to your sound effects, as they use the styles of old-school rock guitar amplifiers, a great cheat for giving more colour and

7 The mixing desk icon lights up blue when you re in this screen with all your tracks laid out (our drum machine track is highlighted). As this is a quick guide we re not going to explore all the instruments on offer but it s worth a look at Guitar Amp (swipe to the right of drums). Amplifier setting (jack icon) is good for getting crunchy, echoey edges to your sound effects, as they use the styles of old-school rock guitar amplifiers, a great cheat for giving more colour and depth to your soundtrack. Tap this to record any diegetic sounds you d like to include (it uses the onboard internal ipad microphone). Maybe you ve got a really creaky door at home and you d like to build it as a sound effect into the mixrecord this here and add effects to make your piece richer. intofilm.org 4

When you re ready to drop your piece into your film in

A blue box will appear and your tune will start jiggling.

Click share and your film will then export to imovie.

8 When you re ready to drop your piece into your film in imovie, tap and hold down on your chosen song in MY SONGS. A blue box will appear and your tune will start jiggling. Tap this box to open up your song in another app. Click share and your film will then export to imovie. Then open in imovie by tapping here on the imovie icon. intofilm.org 5

Open your film in imovie by tapping on the title in your film projects list.

Then tap the downward arrow to drop the clip onto your film.

The audio track will then show up underneath the individual shots on your imovie timeline and you can edit this in the

9 Open your film in imovie by tapping on the title in your film projects list. Choose your piece from Imported, you can press play to make sure it s the correct clip. Then tap the downward arrow to drop the clip onto your film. Tap the pencil /clapperboard icon to open your chosen film project. The audio track will then show up underneath the individual shots on your imovie timeline and you can edit this in the same way you edit pre-programmed themes and audio sound effects in imovie. The film timeline will appear. On the top right tap Audio. In this example the audio clip was too short for the film so we ve slowed it down by a half to fit. Do this this by tapping on the audio track to highlight (it will go be highlighted yellow). Then tapping the dial icon drag the marker away towards the rabbit icon to speed the music up and towards the tortoise icon to slow it down, until the music track is matched to the length of the shot timeline. intofilm.org 6

TOP TIPS! Garageband automatically saves your work, so you don t need to save as you go. Remember you can undo any operation in the same way as in Garageband by using the undo icon (top right).

To do this tab on the soundtrack (it goes yellow) then tap the speaker icon, you ll see Fade at bottom right. Tap this and a yellow triangle will appear at the end of the soundtrack bar.

It s best to get the sounds you want before you drop your piece to imovie, as you have more editing options in Garageband.

10 TOP TIPS! Garageband automatically saves your work, so you don t need to save as you go. Remember you can undo any operation in the same way as in Garageband by using the undo icon (top right). Another handy tool is fade to fade in with the music at the beginning or maybe to fade out at the end of the film to create a smooth transition. To do this tab on the soundtrack (it goes yellow) then tap the speaker icon, you ll see Fade at bottom right. Tap this and a yellow triangle will appear at the end of the soundtrack bar. Moving this to the left creates a fade shadow so you can adjust the height and depth of the fade, listening as you go. It s best to get the sounds you want before you drop your piece to imovie, as you have more editing options in Garageband. Don t worry too much about writing a whole piece from start to finish in one go. Concentrate on keeping your individual tracks and sounds to smaller chunks, it will be a lot easier if you have got the film running while you re laying tracks together. The Garageband guitar sounds that come with the app are really good for chords (ie multiple strings played together- lots of notes combined to sound like one satisfying sound) as these are more difficult for inexperienced musicians to play. You can also hit Trim as you go, and when you adjust the length of the piece the fade will adjust accordingly. Into Film has a simple Guide to using imovie available at click on the Resources section. intofilm.org 7

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