1. Music for a Christmas Animation
S3 Music Technology
Inverurie Academy Faculty of Expressive Arts
Music for a Christmas Animation

2. Creating a Sound Track for a Christmas Animation
Learning Intentions
1. You are going to create a sound track for a Christmas animation of your choice
2 Create a sound design map for your chosen animation
3. Create Foley sounds for your animation using the Zoom/mics and Focus Scarlett box.
4. Use the internet and controller keyboard to source/make sound effects and background music for your animation
5. Convert your Foley etc. to Mp3 files
6. Import all your sounds and match up to your animation
7. Apply basic mixing techniques to your work
8. Export your animation as a QuickTime Movie
9. Evaluate your work

3. Success Criteria All pupils will be able to ……
Select an animation of their choice to work with and create a Sound Design Map
Use the internet to source sound effects
Upload the sfx into Cubase and match up with the animation
Evaluate their work and upload this to the S3 Music Tech blog
Most pupils will be able to ……
Use the Zoom H1 and or mics and focus Scarlett box to create Foley and or Dialogue
Convert the Foley etc to Mp3 files
Export their finished project as a Quick Time Movie
Some pupils will be able to ……
Apply basic mixing techniques to their work.

4. Work through this brief in order to complete your project – please ensure you read the instructions carefully and update your session log at the end of each period…..
Stage 1
Go to Shared Documents – Faculties – Creative Arts – Music – – S3 Music Tech – Christmas movies
Listen to and watch all the animations in the folder and choose
one for your project.
Copy and Paste your chosen animation into a new folder in you’re my
documents called CHRISTMAS MOVIE PROJECT.
Complete a SOUND DESIGN MAP detailing all the sounds you hear and are where they come from – live recoding, foley ,dialogue,
sound effect. (your teacher will hand these out)

5. Sound Design Map example
Stage 2
Create your own Sound design map – carefully detailing what sounds you need and where are you going to get them –foley, sound effect (from the internet or controller keyboard, music/background. Complete the map on the next slide.
Sound Design Map example
Time
Foley
Sound Effect
Music/background
Dialogue
 00.00
 background music
 00.03
 footsteps on snow
 00.10
 reindeer singing

6. Sound Design Map Time Foley Sound Effect Music/background Dialogue
 00.00
 back ground music – hark the herald
 00.23
 cressendo
 00.26
 slipping on ice

7. Blocking Sounds Stage 3 Block your sounds: Foley Sound Effect Dialogue
Music/background
Other
Slipping on ice
Sugar Plum Fairy

8. www.soundbible.com www.soundjay.com www.freesound.org
These websites have great effects but there are many more:. Just google – ‘free sound effects’
User Name: moggsmusic
Password:room55
User Name: N45MT
Password: room55

9. Stage 4 Open a new CUBASE Project – CHRISTMS MOVIE SOUNDS
One block at a time make/compose your effects and export as MP3 files using AUDIO MIXDOWN.
Sound Effects will download as MP3s automatically from the internet (if you are using CHROME they will go straight to your ‘downloads’ folder. (Use CHROME FOR THIS)
Use the Zoom H1 for Foley sounds and also the mics and Scarlett Focusrite Audio box for sounds/dialogue.
5. Create instrument tracks and experiment with the virtual keyboard /controller keyboard.
Ensure you NAME EACH SOUND!!! and store together in your project folder – CHRISTMAS MOVIE SOUNDS
This will take quite a while but its important that you do this carefully and thoroughly.

10. Stage 5 Open a new project – CHRISTMAS MOVIE
Import the video you have chosen to work with
Set the time line to – time code and time linear (right click on the time line to do this)
The F8 shortcut will allow you to see the video too.
Import your sounds one at a time and line up with the video (Import audio file)

11. Stage 6 Press F3 and you will get the MIXER
Now balance up each track using the sliders to adjust the volume.
Use PANNING to decide which speaker the sounds are coming from.
Use Fade out/ in if appropriate.
Experiment with REVERB
Watch your movie!
Reverb in here
Panning
Volume

12. Stage 7
Export your completed project as a QUICK TIME Movie (see the hand out for this)
Complete your CHRISTMAS MOVIE EVALUATION (at the end of this power point)
Upload this power point including your Evaluation to the S3 MUSIC TECH BLOG
Save your Movie to the TERABYTE HARD DRIVE at the teachers’ desk.

13. Session Log
Date:
1/12/14
What I have done today: I finished my penguin video
What help I needed: I needed help to export it
Evidence I have produced, where and how it is stored: The video is now in my music folder as a midi video
Use this space to insert screen shots of your work (print scr and paste - ctrl + v)

14. Session Log
Date:
27/11/14
What I have done today: I continued to get the sounds I needed and put two together to make my own sound effect. I also got the backing track downloaded
What help I needed: How to offset tracks
Evidence I have produced, where and how it is stored:
Backing track 1 & Slipping on ice

15. Music for a Christmas Animation
Date:
Personal Assessment Record
Pupil
Teacher/Peer
Criteria
RED
AMBER
GREEN 1
Create a sound design map to accompany the Animation 2
Use the internet to search for and download sound effects as .wav and mp3s 3
Use mics/Zoom H1 to record foley sounds/dialogue 4
Use the controller keyboard to compose sound effects 5
Apply basic mixing, EQ and balancing techniques. 6
Bounce down an audio master.
What I like best about my project
1. I like the music I chose
2. I managed to time the sound effects well
What I can do to improve my next project
1. I can chose a longer, more difficult video
2. I can add more effects
Concepts/Effects Used in my music
Differentiated Success Criteria
LO1:
All pupils will be able to...
LO2:
LO3:
Most pupils will be able to..
LO4:
Some pupils will be able to
RED
I need to spend more time on this
AMBER
I am beginning to do this well
GREEN
I am confident at doing this