After hours spent searching for a Web 2.0 application to use in the classroom, one application finally looked completely useful and appropriate for a lesson plan. In my video class, I had planned to teach the art of “foley” or sound effects. There are some great website to help my students understand how sound is added to films and television. But it is difficult to find a selection of sound effects other than what comes on our Mac computers.
An assignment I had thought about doing was to allow students to silence parts of a video (delete the audio track) and to create their own sound effects to accompany the video track. However, it is really difficult to re-create those sounds in a classroom setting. That’s where http://www.soundsnap.com/ comes in.
It is essentially a sound library with over 100,000 sounds available to use. This is a great resource for my students to understand the variety of sounds needed to create a piece of audio track for a movie or television show. For example, there are 2,131 types of footsteps found on this site. The top footstep sound on the list was footsteps in snow. Very cool! My kids will eat this up.
The site used to be free to use. There is now a membership fee. However, I don’t know if we will actually use the sounds for any type of film making. I think it is another good example of understanding copyright and intellectual property. The possibilities of use are endless, as are the ways to get across the idea of sound in video.
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