Thursday, 29 September 2011

Lesson 2 - Using sound design equipment

This week you will get some practical experience using sound design software running on the Apple Mac computers.

Task:
  • Download a video from youtube
  • Import this video into Cubase (the software we will use for sound designing)
  • Select three pieces of music from youtube; one which you feel fits the mood of the video well, one which strongly goes against the mood of the video, and a final piece that neither strongly suits or does not suit.
  • Import these tracks into Cubase and watch the video whilst listening to each of them in turn. Were your initial feelings about the tracks suitability right?
  • Take out a sheet of paper, divide it into three columns and head these columns Good, Bad and Other.
  • You should now move around the class watching your classmates videos. Write on their sheet which music you think they chose as Good i.e. the one that suits the video, Bad and Other.
Here is a video of how to download video's from youtube and import them into Cubase from where we can compose music and add sound effects.