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Y12- Sound Design

WEE K 1 LEARNING OBJECTIVE & KEY QUESTIONS Challenge notion that directors are auteurs through case study looking at contributions of sound designer. (Note: The film is about a soundtrack) How can short films convey meaning without using dialogue? For all students to have opportunity to experiment with sound and visuals within the documentary form. Irving Penn task For all students to RESOURCES Three Colours: Blue (DVD in D82) See http://www.esfmedia. com/page/Trois+Coul eurs+Bleu (Teachers link only) HOMEWORK Begin prep work for deciding on topic for Independent Study STUDENT ACTIVITY Set up analysis of film using Keynote presentationd ifferent questions for each individual in class. (One or two pairs) Deconstruct Signs using Criterion D (The construction of Film Language) Set all students the Irving Penn task

Signs (11mins Short Film) See http://www.esfmedia.c om/page/Cannes+2009 +Winner-+Signs http://www.esfmedia.c om/page/Irving+Penn+ Task Students find other (award winning) short, short films. Show the film and explain why you think it was successful. Begin work on Irving Penn task

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see previous examples of work done on this task Learn to use appropriate subject specific terminology in textual analysis of sound related clips. To apply subject specific terminology via the analysis of the clip and posting of comments onto forum discussion thread

om/page/Hong+Kong+ Traders The Conversation (d. Martin Scorsese, 1974) Note this is by Walter Murch! (Opening 10mins) See http://www.youtube.co m/watch?v=AUKUe15 WZkE&feature=player_ embedded http://sisfilm.ning.com /forum/topics/soundanalysis

Rationale must be in place by here

Watch opening 10mins of The Conversation. Use terminology taken from sound glossary on wiki to write analysis of the scene Students to post on forum thread including responses to their peers.

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To introduce students to avant garde filmmaking techniques To consider the use of deliberately dissonant diegetic sound and the

Eraserhead (d. David Lynch, 1977) See http://www.esfmedia.c om/page/Eraserhead

* Going to HK Film Archive *

* All students are taken on a tour of the HK Film Archive. At the end of the tour they have an hour to explore resources that may be useful for their EE or Independent Study.

impact on the audience For all students to be exposed to presentation by former students on Soundtrack Pro http://www.esfmedia.c om/page/Edward+Mur chie+and+Will+Wong+ Video

* Use of lecture by former students on sound designstudents to take pertinent notes.

To introduce all students to diigo and the possibilities of annotation

Irving Penn Task (Dialogue & Documentary Conventions) See http://www.esfmedia.c om/page/Irving+Penn+ Task The best production from last year was produced by Caroline & Kai (See http://www.esfmedia.c om/page/Hong+Kong+

Students read annotated article from NY Times. (The annotations were produced by the teacher using diigo)

Traders http://www.nytimes.co m/2007/12/07/movies /07eras.html?_r=2 6 For all students to be part of a workshop based on sound design, focusing on how to get the best of Garage Band and compositional skills Ken Chan workshop resources (unable to upload these are they copyrighted files) Research Shaw Studios. What is it famous for? Why is it so important to the Hong Kong film industry? Prepare each two questions each that you want to ask during our tour of the studios. * Go to Shaw Studios * Complete Irving Penn task and upload onto sisfilmmaker (You Tube) Invitation for outside lecturer to run workshops in compositional soundtracks whilst showing simple ways to achieve music relating to specific genres. Watch documentary on Kung Fu. Students to establish a timeline of the genres development with key texts and challenges to the established rules.

For all students to have a sense of the development associated with at least one genre of Hong Kong cinema

* Documentary Cinema Hong Kong

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