In
this challenge you will create a sound board. Your sound board could be
used to create a collage
of your favorite band(s), a humorous prank
telephone comment generator, bird call identifier, a collection of your
friends and their favourite sayings or some other useful
and interesting design. This project will require skills that you
have already mastered and new skills you will soon learn. The numerous
assets that you will create should be effectively named to avoid
confusion. Organization will be a key attribute of the successful
multimedia producer! This project can really lend itself to team
work ...... break down the tasks according to the talent pool of the
group banish anyone from your island
that fails
to attend classes, come on time or generally not pull their weight on the
project. The tribe wants no slackers in school or at work!
You will use the following
software tools :
Photoshop - to
render button images.
Flash - to create
interactive movie buttons that have rollover effects and play music on
down click
or
rollover.
SoundForge or
WavePad- to
extract and edit (filter, effects) short sound clips
DreamWeaver - create
tables for assembling the sound board assets
here we
jump to an example sound board (under construction)
Wild Kingdom Sound Board
Leopard Roar
- over image
desaturated
- down image saturated
- audio - on event - left to right audio crossover
Lion Roar - over
image desaturated
- down image saturated
- audio - on event
Sound Board
ID
- its your own voice (or your pick of voiceover)
recorded by you and mixed with a supporting background track
(like the chimps and kookaburras)
HOW TO GET STARTED
click item for details
1 -
imagine a theme for your sound board
>>>>
music, strange sounds, cartoon character, etc...
2 -
in
DreamWeaver set up a table with three 200 pixel cells on the
width and height (similar to above, that's a 600 x 600
pixel table ) or use your imagination and
surprise us all!
3 -
generate your audio (Forge
or WavePad) and visual assets
( a short audio clips and 2 images
for each cell)
4 -
in Flash set up the stage to 200 x 200 pixels
(or what ever you have chosen) to
create your Flash
Buttons >>>(one for each cell)
that fails
to attend classes, come on time or generally not pull their weight on the
project. The tribe wants no slackers in school or at work!