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Your Soundtrack

You will re-mix your own soundtrack for this project using three songs (minimum)
For those of you who are novices to music mixing, you can, in the least, mix lyrics/messages from a few songs like the soundtrack created for this course (listen below):
You have one of two choices for your soundtrack: 
CHOICE ONE: You can choose an instrumental and then lay two songs (with lyrics) on top of that instrumental. 
CHOICE TWO: You can blend three songs using beat-matching in either a mash-up format or a fade-in/fade-out method.

Recording Your Voice

This project starts with WRITING: the story that YOU want to tell.  Because this is a story that you need to record, the first element of our soundtrack work will be creating an mp3 of your voice speaking your story.  If you have multiple voices for multiple people in the story, they need to be recorded also.  You have a few choices for this:
  1. You can use your phone.
  2. You can use your computer.
  3. You can use AUDACITY.  This means that you will need to download the software onto your computer (it is free).  You will have to read the directions carefully on the website for how to download this software, because there will be no demonstration of this for you.  Click here for MAC. Click here for WINDOWS.
Whatever method you choose, come to class with your voice recorded.  There will be NO demonstration of this for you.  The video above guides you with recording your voice on audacity.  Notice that this is a tutorial for high school students.  It is NOT above your head!  


In the end, you will need to work with mp3 only in the PC lab!  Do a search on google to find out how to transform song files on your MAC pr iPhone to mp3.

The Basics of Audacity

Getting Started
Editing
Exporting

Advanced: using Audacity for Mash-Ups

If you have the ear and patience and you like mixing music, you can take this much further!  You can make your digital story MORE about the music than your voiceover reading the story.  It depends on what you want to achieve with your story and how you want the music to sound.

SilverstarMashUps: Part I
SilverstarMashUps: Part II
More on How to Beat Match and Mix: Part I
More on How to Beat Match and Mix: Part II

warning
This song will eventually be the background music for your video that will be uploaded to youtube.  If you use a very popular, radio-endorsed, mainstream artist and song, youtube will likely block your song and you will not be able to upload.  
Choose your music wisely.  If using such a popular, mainstream, find a remix of it on soundclound.com (download the remix there and use that).