Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Laughter is the Best Medicine Due: March 26

Using audacity and your own vocal talents, record these different kinds of laughter onto a CDR. Include your original laugh track for each type of laugh. Also, indicate by clearly saying which is your original unmodified laugh track and which your modified laugh track (final product). Make sure you export the files into wav formats before saving your final version. Play with the different effects in audacity to derive the following:
  1. An old woman's cackle
  2. A fat man's belly laugh
  3. An old man's laughter
  4. A baby's laugh
  5. A young girl's laugh
  6. A woman's laugh
  7. A young boy's laugh
  8. Monster's laugh
  9. Witch's laugh
  10. Cartoon laugh

In a short paper but in proper essay form, tell me how you modified your laugh to achieve the final products. Be really precise. For example, don't just tell me, I moved the pitch up. Instead tell me, I moved the pitch up from F to C#. (Audacity tells you this when you select the change of pitch) For extra credit (1 more point for this assignment), come up with 3 kinds of laughter that is different from the list above. Again, don't forget to tell me how you modified your laugh.

4 comments:

Adam McKiller said...

What's the difference between an old woman's cackle and a witch's laugh?

What about a young boy's laugh and a young girl's laugh? They sound very similar, assuming we're talking about prepubescent children.

What do you mean by a 'cartoon laugh'? A cartoon ___?

Ben Schaffhauser said...

is this considered a response paper assignment or ?

Elvwyr said...

Hi Adam and Ben,

An old woman's cackle would sound more human whereas a witch's laugh would sound more witch-like. Think of witches in movies and plays. As for the young boy and girl's laugh, you're right they will be almost identical so just treat them as one or the other. Just choose 1 to record. Finally, a cartoon laugh would be any cartoon character's laugh. Think a cartoon dog, a cartoon cat etc. anything you can think of. You can also choose to imitate existing cartoons such as Woody Woodpecker.

Elvwyr said...

Ben, this is considered a response paper assignment and it will be out of 5 points.