Audiobook

Please view the video below before reading the information on the Audio Book assignment:
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__**Introduction Information**__
As we all understand the importance literacy in our world, we will use our gifts and talents to help others develop theirs. This year we will be creating audio books that will explore the areas of planning, recording, splitting and cutting audio, and inserting sound effects. We will record and create captivating audio books for young children at some of our sister schools to use as a learning resource. Here is what you will need to do:

__**The Steps For This Project**__
1. Choose a children's book that is around a grade one reading level. I have a stack of books in the green screen room, your may bring a personal favourite from your childhood, or you may check the library. 2. Script your audiobook in Celtx. We will go over this program as a class.

How to use Celtx (in case you missed the lesson in class): media type="youtube" key="Nmw2UM0zm8w" width="400" height="315"

3. You will need to then plan where and when you are going to place appropriate sound effects. These sound effects should be sound effects from our 300 SFX collection (on my USB drive) or from the internet using sites such as [|YouTube] or [|Sound Bible]. 4. You will then record the book in its entirety using one of the laptops and/or microphones that are in the green screen room. You may also use your phone if the microphone is clear enough. We will come up with a recording schedule for the class today. 6. Once you have recorded the book, you will then transfer the MP3 file of you reading the book, to your computer. 7. Open your audio file in audacity and begin to add background music, and proper sound effects where necessary. **You MUST have a sound effect that notifies the turning of a page.** 8. Once you have added some background music and sound effects to this project and feel that it is complete, please export this in MP3 form and email the MP3 file to jp2techdropbox@gmail.com 9. After you have completed the MP3 portion of this project, you are then to take take photographs of the pages in your book to and upload them onto your computer. 10. You will put these images into Adobe Premiere and will use the crop tool to edit the photos to look the the full page of a book. 11. You will then place your MP3 into Adobe Premiere and will match up the images to fit the pace of the MP3. This will create a digital version of the book as well. 12. Once you have matched the MP3 to the images and the book moves at the proper pace, you will then export the book into video form. 13. Please upload and share the digital video book with me as well to jp2techdropbox@gmail.com.
 * 5. Be sure to have a sound effect selected to notify the reader to turn the page. Make sure that you introduce this sound effect at the start of the book. **

Tips for making a good audiobook:

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=== You do not want your audio book to be plain. If you have just the recording but no extra audio to enhance the project, it will sound something like the file below...boring!! ===

The Three Little Pigs media type="file" key="Boring - Three Little Pigs by Leonard Leslie Brook.mp3" width="240" height="20"

Here are some examples from students in previous CM classes without a page turn notification:
Brown Bear Brown Bear media type="file" key="Brown Bear Brown Bear.mp3" width="240" height="20" Bump in the Night media type="file" key="Matthew 's Audiobook (Bump in the Night).mp3" width="240" height="20"

Here are some examples from students in previous CM classes with a page turn notification:
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie media type="file" key="audiobooktyrawoo.mp3" width="240" height="20" media type="file" key="Alex and Jontay Story.mp3" width="240" height="20" One Fish Two Fish media type="file" key="Drakes Audio Book.mp3" width="240" height="20" Masters of the Universe media type="file" key="final.mp3" width="240" height="20"

Mouse and Moles Great Race media type="file" key="Audio Book by Brianna Cardinal.mp3" width="240" height="20"
 * Due date to be determined