Digital+literacy+study

**//DIGITAL LITERACY//**
 * Digital Sounds Analysis**
 * Project: SOUND FX**

Format: There are many different techniques used to communicate visually and aurally. 1. You will investigate the importance of sound effects to enhance a message and learn how they were included in early cricket broadcasts. 2. You will learn how to match characters to sounds and music and then put what you have learned into practice using interactive learning objects as well as creating your own soundscape. || A. • //How do sound effects and music contribute to a spoken message or an image?// B. • //Why is it important that the sound matches the message, characters or action?// // C. // • //What are some commonly used sound effects?//
 * Core Understanding **
 * ** Summary of Activity **
 * Focus Questions **
 * Focus Questions **

**Class Activities** On Wednesdays, in literacy sessions, Grade 5/6 students from room 9 and 10, will work together with their teachers to explore sound effects in digital projects. This collection of resources introduces you to how sound effects can enrich and enhance a message or a mood.

Think About: · // How do sound effects and music contribute information or understanding to a spoken message or an image? // · // Why is it important that the sound matches the message, characters or action? // · // What are some commonly used sound effects? // = Activity 1 = Watch and then discuss a few slides that commonly have a sound effect ‘attached’ to them, which have been created for you. = Activity 2 = Listen to Cricket quicktime movies
 * [|Synthetic cricket broadcast, 1938 - asset 1 (6ZBKSY)] **
 * [|Synthetic cricket broadcast, 1938 - asset 2 (3G9LYN)] **

View both parts of the ABC cricket broadcast, 1938 (6ZBKSY and 3G9LYN). Discuss the following questions.

· Why do you think the ABC added sound effects to the commentary? · How did the sound effects give the impression that it was a live broadcast from London? · Do you think the listeners at home realised that the sounds were created in the studio ? = Activity 3 = · Work through “Character maker: sound” to learn why it is important to match both sound effects and music to both the character and the situation and how this is done.

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Listen to the first few chapters of The BFG by Roald Dahl in which he describes the BFG’s progress down the street.
 * Activity 4 **

Discuss the following questions. · What sort of sound effects could be used to bring this to life? · What sort of ambient music could be used in the background? = Activity 5 = Put what you have learned into practice by working through Digital story: Tony's Adventure: animation by matching both animation and sound effects to a text, found at this sight.

[] = Activity 6 = Work through “Lights, camera, action: sound” and learn how sounds are used in films to tell a story and how combinations of sounds can hide or reveal things, make a scene more realistic, set a mood and influence audience feelings, found at this sight. [] ** Home work activity ** Due March 17th


 * Homework Extension - March Book Report. **
 * Create a soundscape using Keynote. **
 * 1. Select a scene from a novel and use a drawing application to create a setting which is then embedded onto a slide as the background. Use appropriate colours and any special features of the drawing tool to create the mood. **


 * 2. Draw characters and objects as separate items and insert these onto the background. **


 * 3. Create and record appropriate sound effects or search for these on the following sites and download them. **
 * www.freesound.org **
 * ** [|www.findsounds.com/] ** On the Macintosh, click on the audio file URL while holding down the Control key and choose Save Link As or Download from the popup menu. Name it and save on desktop. Click on picture; click “insert”, “choose”; find the sound file and click it, then insert to picture. ||