Editing to Sound

• 01 By the end, you can Choose or build the track first and let it set the trailer section’s duration and pace.
• 02 By the end, you can Direct an audio model to generate music that matches an intended mood.
• 03 By the end, you can Cut the picture so changes land on the beat, counting BPM by hand to line the words up.
• 04 By the end, you can Combine both, keeping AI-made sound on its own track for a clear mix, and assign every task to a named crew role.

1. Matching Music To Scenes
   Applied craft
   • Demo One Scene Two Scores Play the same clip under two different music tracks so students hear how the sound changes the scene.
   • Game Guess The Music Drops Watch three silent trailers and mark where you think the music starts, stops, and hits, then check against the real sound.
   • Role-play Emotion And Genre Scene Groups draw an emotion and genre, get a music clip, and act out a short scene that matches it.
2. Prompting Suno And ElevenLabs
   Tool teaching
   • Demo Change One Word The teacher prompts Suno on the screen and changes just one word each time, like the mood, the tempo, or the instrument, so the class hears how each word changes the track.
   • Worksheet Prompt Recipe Card Students fill in slots for mood, genre, instruments, and beats per minute to draft an audio prompt on paper before they type it into Suno.
   • Build Make Your Trailer Track Each team generates a music track in Suno and a matching sound effect or narration line in ElevenLabs for their scene, then keeps the best version.
3. Counting Beats And Cutting To Them
   Applied craft
   • Quiz Name The Move Watch clips shot by shot and have the class name the camera move and the pace of each shot.
   • Demo Cut On The Beat The teacher edits a clip live and talks through each cut, then teams talk through the choices on their own rough cut.
4. Crew Roles And Task List
   Deliverable prep
   • Role-play Crew Role Draft Students pick or draw director, editor, sound engineer, or producer and read a card out loud that lists what that job does on this trailer.
   • Worksheet Job Card Task List Each role fills in a card listing their own named tasks for the trailer and writes down who they hand each finished task to next.
   • Discussion Daily Stand Up Each crew holds a two-minute standing meeting where every person says what they finished, what they will do next, and what is blocking them.

This deliverable is where students demonstrate

1. C Produce narration and score, and acquire the vocabulary of camera direction
   Look out for

   • ↳Music matches mood: The music matches the intended mood, and the picture is cut so changes land on the beat.
   • ↳Camera direction: Camera moves are written in words the AI model can read: where the camera is, how it moves, what it focuses on, the shot type, and the background.
   • ↳Sound timing: Beats per minute are counted by hand and given to the AI model, so spoken words or lyrics line up. Any remaining timing gaps are fixed by hand.
   • ↳Clear mix: AI-made sound sits on its own track, separate from the team's own sound, so the mix stays clear.
   • ↳Task ownership: Every task still to be done is given to one named crew member.