Part of Lesson Plan: Introduction to Sound for Film and Video

Activity Overview / Details

FOLEY ASSIGNMENT:

Objective: Students will create Foley sounds to enhance the video clip provided.  The teacher will provide student groups with a silent video.  Each student group will create a soundtrack for the video using a variety of tools and strategies.

Step 1:  The teacher will play the video, “Metropolis_silent”

Then the teacher places the students into groups of 3-4.  The teacher explains the purpose of the project assignment is to create the sounds, to become Foley Artists, and audio editors/mixers to produce a soundtrack for the silent video.

The teacher then plays the video, "Metropolis Video With Foley Example" – this is a student example of the completed project.

Step 2:  The Project

*Depending on the software and equipment available to the teacher and students, this assignment can be done many ways. 

            • One way is to have the students go out and physically record real sounds with audio recording equipment or video cameras, and then edit those sounds into the video clip. 

            • Another possibility, is to use a software like GarageBand, or Soundbooth, or Soundtrack Pro to search, and save Foley sounds, and other various sound effects.

            • There are several Internet sites with free audio files as well:

                        http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/            

                        http://soundbible.com/royalty-free-sounds-1.html

                        http://www.jamendo.com/en/creativecommons

                        http://www.sounddogs.com/catsearch.asp?Type=1

The students are to edit the audio files created for the Foley Assignment into the silent video and create their own story and soundtrack as a result.