Audacity Side Project: MUSIC MIX



Audacity Project: MUSIC MIX

DUE DATE: Friday before Christmas break

Description

Your task is to create a mix of a minimum of 5 songs (more is okay) linked together on a common theme. You are strongly encouraged to use your story as the theme, but not required. You are also encouraged to use Royalty Free music because many authors allow you, and even encourage you, to take their music and use it in any way you like.

Excerpts from each song should stay around 10-15 seconds each; longer than 30 seconds is not permitted. Every attempt should be made to make the songs sound like they were meant to connect. Use of special effects is encouraged (fade in, fade out, echo). Audio volumes should be adjusted for fluidity.

Expectation

Turn in completed .wav sound file, 60 seconds to 120 seconds long, by due date. If your music has lyrics, these must be printed and turned in with project. Absolutely no inappropriate music excerpts will be tolerated (watch language, sexual overtones, mention of drugs/alcohol, etc.). It is your responsibility to secure the songs and bring them to school or download them appropriately from the internet (CDs, MP3s, etc.).

Scoring Guide

|Poor |Good |Great |Content |

|Inappropriate topics or language in |Good song choices, but doesn’t really |Unique arrangement of songs connected on |Selection of Songs |

|portion(s) of song selections |mesh together |one word; overall song has actual meaning|____/25 |

| | |or is clever in some parts; ends with | |

| | |actual song ending | |

|Uses more than 30 seconds in a song or |5 songs with mostly song segments that |More than 5 songs with 10-15 seconds per |Length of Segments |

|songs |are 20 seconds in length |song for most songs |____/25 |

|Little or no evidence of effort to |Some problems with volume or tone; |Overall fluid assembly; flows smoothly |Quality of Assembly |

|normalize audio and create smooth |transitions could be smoother or timing |from song to song with volume adjusted |____/25 |

|transitions; sounds “thrown together” and|is just a smidgen off |appropriately and sound normalized to | |

|amateur | |match throughout | |

|Little creativity shown or project |Some creativity shown, but doesn’t really|Song selection tells a story to some |Creativity |

|incomplete |show great effort (links on easy words |extent or selection shows creativity and |____/25 |

| |like THE or AND) |imagination; effects are used to enhance | |

| | |overall product (fades, echo, etc.) | |

|Some required materials missing (all or | |Scoring guide and typed lyrics with |Required Materials |

|nothing) | |underlined connected words attached to |____/20 |

| | |grade sheet | |

| | | |TOTAL ____ /120 |

NAME:_______________________________ SAVED AS:________________________________

Turn in this scoring guide and required materials (staple to sheet); save project as FIRSTNAME-songmix.mp3 (be sure to export in MP3 format) to the X drive, btfinal folder

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