Voiceover Artists

OBJ: Students will understand how to make a basic radio public service announcement.

VOCAB:
Vocal Talent, Voiceover Artist - a person who performs with their voice but is not seen.

MINI LESSON:
What don't we see?

How should they speak?

WORKTIME:
Students will write a 30 second radio public service announcement.
1.What happened in Haiti?
2.What can we do to help?
3. How can we do this? redcross.org

CLOSING: What does a person who is a voice artist have to do?

HW: Listen for example Radio PSAs and think about how they are different from ours?

It’s the NBC announcer test. The test originated at Radio Central New York (NBC) in the 1940s as a reading test given to prospective radio talent. The prospect would read the script for clarity, enunciation, diction, tonality and expressiveness. It had to be performed perfectly — no stumbles or stammers. Plus, it was to be read with feeling and meaning!
It’s good to start off slowly to get the enunciation down. Later you can read it fast for articulation. And here it is…

One hen
Two ducks
Three squawking geese
Four Limerick oysters
Five corpulent porpoises
Six pairs of Don Alverzo’s tweezers
Seven thousand Macedonians in full battle array
Eight brass monkeys from the ancient, sacred crypts of Egypt
Nine apathetic, sympathetic, diabetic, old men on roller skates with a marked propensity towards procrastination and sloth
Ten lyrical, spherical, diabolical denizens of the deep who haul stall around the corner of the quo of the quay of the quivery, all at the same time.

from voiceactorsnotebook.com

Metaphor

OBJ: To interpret visual metaphor

VOCAB:
metaphor - uses two different things to say something about how they are similar
(metaphor with like or as = simile)
Ex. "Love is a rose" Neil Young

"Between the lower east side tenements
the sky is a snotty handkerchief."
(Marge Piercy, "The Butt of Winter")


"The streets were a furnace, the sun an executioner."
(Cynthia Ozick, "Rosa")


"But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill."
(William Sharp, "The Lonely Hunter")


"Men's words are bullets, that their enemies take up and make use of against them."
(George Savile, Maxims of State)


"A man may break a word with you, sir, and words are but wind."
(Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors)


"The rain came down in long knitting needles."
(Enid Bagnold, National Velvet)


Lenny: Hey, maybe there is no cabin. Maybe it's one of them metaphorical things.
Carl: Oh yeah, yeah. Like maybe the cabin is the place inside each of us, created by our goodwill and teamwork.
Lenny: Nah, they said there would be sandwiches.
(The Simpsons)


"Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food."
(Austin O'Malley, Keystones of Thought)

from grammar/about.com

from adventuresinstockphotography

108: (7) Scary City Stories

OBJ: How can we use horror elements in biographical texts

TASK: What makes a story scary?

WORKTIME:
1.Write a one page scary story that you heard or lived (BONUS: If your story takes place in Jackson Heights
2. Revise / Rewrite / Rehearse

CLOSING:
Share rough versions of the stories. Film.

HOMEWORK:
Add little details to your story to give it more realism.

Animation Sound in Post (and Pre)

OBJ: To introduce sound design for animation.

TASK: What sounds are used in a cartoon?

WORKTIME:
1. Create sound effects with objects in groups for "Bridge to Terabithia"
2. Group Share/Perform

CLOSING: What is your sound? How did you create it?

HW: Close your eyes and listen to a cartoon. Write what you notice. Copy into notebook.

Music in Post

OBJ: To learn how a musical score can be made after filming.

TASK: What should the music do?

WORKTIME: Group fix our project's musical score

CLOSING: What did we fix in our post production and why?
HW: Listen for musical scores in (close your eyes!)

Scary City Stories

OBJ: SWBAT compose a fictional narrative.

TASK: List 3 scary stories that you could tell.

WORKTIME: Group fix our projects.

CLOSING: What did we fix in our post production and why?

HW: Listen to sound in media (close your eyes!)