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Soundtrack

Location sound (also known as production sound or direct sound)

Dialogue

Silence

Sound FX

Foley sound

Musical score

Diegetic sound

Non-diegetic sound

Contrapuntal sound

All the different layers of sound used within a film, including location sound, dialogue, sound effects (FX), Foley sound, and musical score.

Sound recorded during production (filming).

Sound produced by characters speaking.

A lack of audible sound or presence of sounds of very low intensity, often used in film for dramatic effect or to give the audience a breather after climactic scenes.

Recorded sound added to the location sound in post-production (editing).

Sound recorded live to add to the track to enhance aspects of the sound, eg a door creaking, footsteps.

Music added to the soundtrack.

Sound that comes from the film world; those sounds that you would hear if you were a character in the film world.

Sounds from outside the film world, that characters within the film world would not be able to hear.

Sound that contrasts strongly with the image that you see on screen.

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Guide to Garageband

Garageband is a pretty easy way of recording your own music on an iPad. You can build up your soundtrack by layering separately recorded pieces of music.

This guide has been designed to provide a basic overview of the process of creating a soundtrack in Garageband. For more detailed support with using Garageband, check out the Garageband Help page on the Apple website at apple.com/uk/support/mac-apps/garageband

Here’s the Garageband app icon on your home screen.

A list of any songs you’ve made before will appear. Click

on the plus sign in the top left to start a new project.

This will be the first screen that pops up, swipe across to

choose your instrument.

http://apple.com/uk/support/mac-apps/garageband

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It can be tricky to replicate a drum beat with your fingers

on the kit. Tap this button to switch to classic drum machine.

You also have the option of keyboard, guitar, and some

'smart' instruments, which can create a 'groove' at the

touch of a button. The current version offers 'smart'

strings, guitar, drums and keyboard. These are all good

for coming up with something quick and full-sounding.

The Undo button is very useful if you make a mistake.

Tap the Red button to record and the Stop button to

stop (this will only flash when you’re recording).

Metronome is very handy to if you need a count-in,

click to keep your recording in time.

When you tap the Mixing icon you’ll bring up a number

of options that are quite self-explanatory. The main one

you’ll use is track volume as you can use this to balance

the volume of individual tracks to balance your piece.

There are other effects like echo and reverb here. Echo

will create an echo on that track to the level you choose

and reverb adds a ‘sustain’ to the individual sounds. Both

of these can add to the atmosphere of the piece.

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Amplifier setting (jack icon) is good for getting crunchy,

echoey edges to your sound effects, as they use the

styles of old-school rock guitar amplifiers, a great cheat

for giving more colour and depth to your soundtrack.

Tap this to record any diegetic sounds you’d like to

include (it uses the onboard internal iPad microphone).

Maybe you’ve got a really creaky door at home and

you’d like to build it as a sound effect into the mix-

record this here and add effects to make your piece

richer.

The mixing desk icon lights up blue when you’re in this

screen with all your tracks laid out (our drum machine

track is highlighted).

As this is a quick guide we’re not going to explore all the

instruments on offer but it’s worth a look at Guitar Amp

(swipe to the right of drums).

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When you’re ready to drop your piece into your film in

iMovie, tap and hold down on your chosen song in MY

SONGS.

A blue box will appear and your tune will start jiggling.

Tap this box to open up your song in another app.

Click share and your

film will then export to

iMovie.

Then open in iMovie

by tapping here on

the iMovie icon.

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Open your film in iMovie by tapping on the title in your

film projects list.

Tap the pencil /clapperboard icon to open your chosen

film project.

On the top right tap Audio.

Choose your piece from Imported, you can press

play to make sure it’s the correct clip. Then tap the

downward arrow to drop the clip onto your film.

The audio track will then show up underneath the

individual shots on your iMovie timeline and you can edit

this in the same way you edit pre-programmed themes

and audio sound effects in iMovie.

In this example the audio clip was too short for the film

so we’ve slowed it down by a half to fit.

Do this this by tapping on the audio track to highlight (it

will go be highlighted yellow). Then tapping the dial icon

drag the marker away towards the rabbit icon to speed

the music up and towards the tortoise icon to slow it

down, until the music track is matched to the length of

the shot timeline.

The film timeline will appear.

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Remember you can undo any operation in the same way

as in Garageband by using the undo icon (top right).

Another handy tool is fade to fade in with the music at

the beginning or maybe to fade out at the end of the

film to create a smooth transition. To do this tab on the

soundtrack (it goes yellow) then tap the speaker icon,

you’ll see Fade at bottom right.

Tap this and a yellow triangle will appear at the end of

the soundtrack bar. Moving this to the left creates a fade shadow so you can adjust the height and depth of the

fade, listening as you go.

TOP TIPS!

• Garageband automatically saves your work,

so you don’t need to save as you go.

• It’s best to get the sounds you want before you

drop your piece to iMovie, as you have more

editing options in Garageband.

• Don’t worry too much about writing a whole

piece from start to finish in one go. Concentrate

on keeping your individual tracks and sounds to

smaller chunks, it will be a lot easier if you have got

the film running while you’re laying tracks together.

• The Garageband guitar sounds that come with

the app are really good for chords (ie multiple

strings played together- lots of notes combined to

sound like one satisfying sound) as these are more

difficult for inexperienced musicians to play.

You can also hit Trim as you go, and when you adjust

the length of the piece the fade will adjust accordingly.

Into Film has a simple Guide to using iMovie available

at www.intofilm.org/filmmaking, click on the Resources

section.

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