Sound Finds a Voice

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Sound Finds a Voice

• Sound Invisible element of a digital media
  project
• Can enhance a projects mood and emotion
• Sound can include actors voices, music, natural
  or environmental sounds
• Sounds may be modified through Volume, Pitch,
  rhythm, fidelity, and environment

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Principles of Audio

• Sound is FORCE Emotional, Perceptual, and
  Physical
• Heart and Soul of any production
• The starting point for understanding sound is to
  pay attention to sound wherever and whenever it
  occurs.
• So listen what do you hear?

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Basic Audio Equipment- Microphones

• Pickup Patterns
• Main types
• Handheld
• Lav
• Shotgun/Boom

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Perform before a Microphone

• Speak across
• Closer for condenser/cardiod
• Same distance
• 4-6 inches away
• Closer in noise
• Back up in hard sell

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Basic Audio Equipment- Mixers

• Potentiometers
• VU meter
• Master/Monitor
• Input/Output

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Digital Audio Editing- File Types

• WAV (PC) and AIFF (MAC)
• MP3, MPG, RA
• Larger files for CD quality (10mb/minute)
• MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface)
• Stores music data and read by specific hardware

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Digital Audio Editing- Basics

• Waveform
• Input levels
• Trimming
• Normalize
• Transitions
• SegueCutCross-fadeFade in/out

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Audio Performance

• Understand what saying, meaning and purpose
• Find key words
• Establish mood
• Pace for correct excitement
• Find purpose

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Audio Interview

• Ask simple direct questions
• Ask questions to get a meaningful response
• Ask follow-up questions

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Audio Story

• Look for the interesting answers
• Fill in the gaps
• Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?
• Conversational
• Pyramid News Story Structure

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Pyramid Style
Lead- answers one to three questions
Body- Fills in the rest
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