Diversity – 5e. Re-sound

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Category: Sound

Objectives:

To learn how to give a new meaning to pre-existing images through sound – To understand the added values of sound to the image – To learn how to play with sounds and assign them a narrative function

Short Description:

Enjoy the exciting challenge of recreating a video sequence’s audio track, complete with sound effects, ambient sounds, voices, and music.

Module:

Module 2 > chapiter 2 > section 6
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Duration

2 hours

Number of participants

Ideal with groups between 5-15 people

  • Sound recorders and microphones
  • Computers with editing software
  • The video file with the film clip

As you have already explored different techniques of sound making, now you are ready for the next step of creating, adding diversity messages and speaking out about antiracist issues. Sound can really play an important role as it can transfer a message quickly and quite clearly.

Can science fiction scenes be turned into a diversity debate? Follow step by step the following exercises to discover it!

Description step by step

  • Reveal to the group the film clips from which the sound has mysteriously disappeared.
  • Distribute a sound recorder and a microphone to the different sub-groups.
  • Give them the task of watching the extract carefully and taking note of all the sounds that will be needed to reconstruct the soundtrack.
  • Propose to rewrite dialogues -why not by imagining that the protagonists are debating issues of racism and interculturality as they battle dinosaurs on this mysterious planet!
  • Propose a moment of editing and mixing of the post-synchronised sounds on the images.
  • Export and view the result together.

Tips for the trainer

This exercise can be a good excuse to learn how to use editing software in a fun way, considering only one technical aspect (the sound, not the image).