Audio Assignment
RAW bear hunt
Readers Theater "Bear Hunt Story Time"
The audio recording that I created is a readers theater told by children. I though that this would be an application that teachers could use in the classroom. I truly believe that subjects should be taught and learnt in a cross curricular manner. In this case English language arts, arts education in drama and music is incorporated within one project.
The materials used in the recording was Audacity, laptop built in microphone, percussion instruments, and a piano.
The raw bear recording was taken by asking my daughter Nixie to recall and tell a group sing along song "Going on a bear hunt." My daughter Petra hopped on the piano to give some additional background music. It became very evident that working with young children (K-2) thay are super excited to be recorded and a script is not very useful for them. What worked was patience, flexibility and verbal practice. The big take away with the raw recording was that with smaller recording sequenced together the entire story could be produced.
The Readers Theater version used many sample recordings. The chorus was recorded as a group sing along, each versus had one child recording an obstacle to move around and recorded action sound effects. The children used percussion instruments like bongos, shakers, piano and a door slamming. Including multiple parts to a project is a good idea to plan for. It allows each participant to have a role in the performance and hear their part in the publication.
Editing using Gimp was very useful to sequence all the recorded parts together. I used the same chorus throughout by simply copy and paste. Many parts of sampled recording were trimmed to reduce long pauses. Parts of longer raw recordings was split and taken to be used at a different time, an example is the piano from the raw recordings. Silence was added to the front of the recording to include a music sample that features a recorded introduction and fades into the project. This music sample is also used in the ending, fading in and out to bring closure to the project.
The other handy Gimp feature that I used was the compression tool. It was very useful to bring the top volume to down and avoid distortion. I set the threshold to -17 db and the rate at 5:1.
This was a fun project to do. It was neat seeing my children become creativity, expressive and inventive. I was happy with the end product and have it as a keepsake.
Self Assessment:
Technical aspects: 23%
Effects and Variety: 23%
Creativity: 25%
Level of Work: 10%
Over all Quality: 13%
RAW bear hunt
Readers Theater "Bear Hunt Story Time"
The audio recording that I created is a readers theater told by children. I though that this would be an application that teachers could use in the classroom. I truly believe that subjects should be taught and learnt in a cross curricular manner. In this case English language arts, arts education in drama and music is incorporated within one project.
The materials used in the recording was Audacity, laptop built in microphone, percussion instruments, and a piano.
The raw bear recording was taken by asking my daughter Nixie to recall and tell a group sing along song "Going on a bear hunt." My daughter Petra hopped on the piano to give some additional background music. It became very evident that working with young children (K-2) thay are super excited to be recorded and a script is not very useful for them. What worked was patience, flexibility and verbal practice. The big take away with the raw recording was that with smaller recording sequenced together the entire story could be produced.
The Readers Theater version used many sample recordings. The chorus was recorded as a group sing along, each versus had one child recording an obstacle to move around and recorded action sound effects. The children used percussion instruments like bongos, shakers, piano and a door slamming. Including multiple parts to a project is a good idea to plan for. It allows each participant to have a role in the performance and hear their part in the publication.
Editing using Gimp was very useful to sequence all the recorded parts together. I used the same chorus throughout by simply copy and paste. Many parts of sampled recording were trimmed to reduce long pauses. Parts of longer raw recordings was split and taken to be used at a different time, an example is the piano from the raw recordings. Silence was added to the front of the recording to include a music sample that features a recorded introduction and fades into the project. This music sample is also used in the ending, fading in and out to bring closure to the project.
The other handy Gimp feature that I used was the compression tool. It was very useful to bring the top volume to down and avoid distortion. I set the threshold to -17 db and the rate at 5:1.
This was a fun project to do. It was neat seeing my children become creativity, expressive and inventive. I was happy with the end product and have it as a keepsake.
Self Assessment:
Technical aspects: 23%
Effects and Variety: 23%
Creativity: 25%
Level of Work: 10%
Over all Quality: 13%
Dammit Cal, why did you have to bring in the cute factor!!!??
ReplyDeleteI loved how you included your children in the recordings it definitely makes the piece more fun!
ReplyDeleteVery good Job Callum; you know no bounds when it comes to using your children to advance your career ;)
ReplyDeleteThanks, can't underestimate the mind of a child.
ReplyDeleteI loved this. Very well done! Good idea incorporating the kids :)
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