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UNIT 5: Creating your own soundtrack. Spanish and Galician films.

And now the real fun starts!

We have learnt LOADS about music in films, so now comes the real fun! 

Put your own music to a scene. 

And change it.

See which one you like best.

And try another one.

Perhaps you can even put music to videos taped by yourselves.

And perhaps you can accompany them with your very own music, and make your own video clip to tell a story in the way you want to. 

Are you ready????

Getting started

To get started, let's use YouTube video editor, which has some good tools for learning to edit videos and it's not difficult. 

You will need an email account with Google. 

Watch and listen. 

Justin Brown - Primal Video Editing videos with YouTube Licencia YouTube

As you can see, there are predetermined audio tracks and also links to copyright-free music which you can use. 

Watch out for one thing: you can only edit videos that you have in your own account. If you want to edit somebody else's video, you would have to download it and then upload it again as a personal video. 

To download videos from YouTube there are various programmes:

Gozilla Downloader: @Gozilla_bot is one example. 

Activity

To begin with, try the following activity with a partner: 

- Look at a few videos of your choice on YouTube turning down the volume: DON'T listen to their soundtrack, just watch them in silence.

- Choose one which you think would be good with sad music. 

- Download the video, and then upload it to edit it on YouTube.

- Choose a sad piece of music (hopefully you can find a copyright-free song or tune).

- Change the soundtrack on your chosen video using the new, sad music. LISTEN TO IT: DOES IT WORK?

- AND NOW, ONLY AFTER SETTING YOUR NEW MUSIC TO IT, listen to the ORIGINAL on YouTube. It should be fun! Which version do you like better? Does the meaning of the video change?

Activity 2

This time, decide for yourselves how you plan to change the atmosphere or mood of a scene: you can make it happy, or mysterious, or tense, or romantic, or funny, etc, using new music. 

- Perhaps you can even get ambitious and try to include some of the techniques we have learnt about during this project, such as some Mickey-Mousing!

Here is a video of Pirates of the Caribbean which has been edited to show the different atmospheres that can be created with the same scene using different soundtracks: 

shelley craig How the soundtrack changes the mood Licencia cedida a YouTube

NOW DO YOUR OWN EXPERIMENT: HAVE FUN!