Halloween Soundscape

Inverurie Academy Faculty of Creative Arts: S3 Music

The Task......

Using a stimulus – a poem, Halloween scene or picture from

the internet your task is to create a Halloween Soundscape

using Sound effects from the internet and Audacity.

You will export your final Soundscape and PowerPoint to

your page on the Inverurie Academy Music Blog

You will export your final Soundscape as an MP3 file and

import it to a Powerpoint.

Points are awarded for effects, sounds and presentation etc.

Step by step guide to selecting and downloading sound effects.

1. Decide on your stimulus and copy and paste your picture etc into a blank power point.

2. Google ‘free Halloween sound effects’ and spend some time researching sounds that will fit with your stimulus.

3. Open Audacity and record each sound and export as an MP3 file into a folder called Halloween sounds.

4. Now you have to decide on which order these sounds will be played.

5. When you have decided this open a new Audacity File and Import each MP3 sound effect in turn.

6. This is the fun section where you can decide what you are going to do with each sound using the effects menu – Mrs Moggach will show you this.

7. Save your work as an Audacity Project until it is complete then save as an MP3 to insert into your power point.

Create a ghostly ghoulie, horror

soundscape using Audacity. You can

base it on the poem on the page, a

Halloween picture/scene or a

poem you have written yourself or by someone else.

20 points

Upload your finished

presentation and

soundscape to your page on the Inverurie

Academy Music Blog

4 points

Export your soundscape as an MP 3

and save in a folder

‘Halloween’

5 points

Create a balanced

track thinking

about levels between different ‘sounds’

7 points

Use fade in and out to

tidy up your sound

scape

2 points each

Find online and

download your sound

effects. Input them

into audacity

1 point per sound effect.

Use at least 4 effects

from Audacity in your work.

1 point per effect

Create a PowerPoint with your

stimulus and insert your

‘soundscape’ to make a

presentation

5 points

The more points you gather

the better the reward!

• 1. Find your stimulus – poem/picture etc.

• 2.Download Free sound effects from the internet on Audacity and save as ‘Project files’

• 3.Using Audacity add effects to the sounds – Use the Effects Menu.

• 4. Export your finished ‘sound effects’ as MP3 files. (See me if you need LAME encoder)

• 5. Import your MP3 files as Audio into a new Audacity file.

• 6. Use the time shift tool to place your effects in the correct place. Save your final Sound Scape as an MP3 – all other versions as a Project file.

• 7. Open a power point document and insert your Stimulus.

• 8. Insert your completed MP3 sound file and play to check.

• 9. Save your power point and upload to your page on the Inverurie Academy Music Blog. Call your Power point ‘Halloween Sound Scape’.

Step by Step Guide

Darkness falls across the land The midnight hour is close at hand Creatures crawl in search of blood To terrorize y`awl`s neighbourhood And whosoever shall be found Without the soul for getting down Must stand and face the hounds of hell And rot inside a corpse's shell The foulest stench is in the air The funk of forty thousand years And grizzly ghouls from every tomb Are closing in to seal your doom And though you fight to stay alive Your body starts to shiver For no mere mortal can resist The evil of the thriller