Term+2+digital+book+reports


 * Home work activity ** Due May 30th

**1. May Book Report. Choose and read a fantastic book from school.** ** Create a soundscape using Keynote on 5 slides. ** ** 1. Select 3 scenes from a novel which recount the most important scenes. Use a drawing application to create settings which are then embedded onto a slide as the background. Use appropriate colours and any special features of the drawing tool to create the mood. **

** 2. Draw characters and objects as separate items and insert these onto the background. **

** 3. Create and record appropriate sound effects or search for these on the following sites and download them. ** ** www.freesound.org **

** 4. Include a Problem- Solution- Result tool to retell the story on your last slide. The first slide should be your title, author and heading slide. ** **2. Chinese Folk Tale Digital book report- Due May 22nd ** **Read a Chineses Folk Tale - a book or on line.** **Make sure that y**﻿**ou** ** clarify confusing parts of the tex **t and use your own words. **Re-tell the plot in your own words. Write the new text and record it.** **Choose appropriate Chinese music and any sounds which would suit the retelling.** **Create a digital book report. You could use whatever program you like- Keynote, Comic Life, Kid pix. You could export your project into I movie.**
 * **[|www.findsounds.com/] ** On the Macintosh, click on the audio file URL while holding down the Control key and choose Save Link As or Download from the popup menu. Name it and save on desktop. Click on picture; click “insert”, “choose”; find the sound file and click it, then insert to picture. ||

These activities will help you with choosing appropriate sounds: Tony's Adventure: animation by matching both animation and sound effects to a text, found at this sight. [] = = Work through “Lights, camera, action: sound” and learn how sounds are used in films to tell a story and how combinations of sounds can hide or reveal things, make a scene more realistic, set a mood and influence audience feelings, found at this sight. []