DF3420 Sound Design
Friday, April 1st, 2011
DF3420 Sound Design
This course explores the various methods and techniques for digital sound composition and design. Students will focus on using digital sound systems and manipulating sound elements for intended effects in media content.
Instructor: John Keston
Meeting Times and Location Section (M/W):
Session 1 / Session 2
Room 009 11:00am - 12:00pm
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Friday, April 1st, 2011
Session 1: After covering the syllabus and an overview of the class curriculum, the week will be a mixture of review, for those of you who have had Audio Production in the past, and a few new concepts for everyone. We'll start with discussing what sound is and how we ...
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Friday, April 1st, 2011
Session 1: Today we will discuss to requirements for our first project, "Environments and Processing". The goal of the “Environments and Processing” project is to re-create from a written script the sound design for a movie scene that contains no dialogue using pre-recorded sound effects. The lack of dialogue allows ...
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Friday, April 1st, 2011
Session 1: So far we have explored gathering sounds from libraries and using them to create sonic environments. For the duration of this class we will examine and utilize a variety of sources and techniques for producing sound design and effects. Let's discuss all the possible sound sources available typically ...
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Friday, April 1st, 2011
Session 1: What are some good techniques for creating sounds effects through recording techniques? How, for example, would you make the sound of a human heartbeat? What about bones breaking, explosions, or fire? Obviously it can be difficult to record the real thing for many examples of sounds that we ...
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Friday, April 1st, 2011
Session 1: Sampling and synthesis are two areas within sound design that I find particularly fascinating. Using any of a broad variety of synthesis techniques, sounds can be invoked from nothing but mathematics and electronics, essentially bringing abstract, aural ideas into reality.
Pioneering examples of synthesis in music include, Tomita (The ...
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Friday, April 1st, 2011
Session 1: Today I'll be demonstrating the techniques necessary for completing part one of the "Inventing New Sounds: Synthesis and Sampling" project. In order to create synthesized sounds we will use Propellerheads Reason. This software offers several devices for producing analog modeled, synthesized sound. One of the easiest, yet great ...
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Friday, April 1st, 2011
Session 1: Today we will look at the requirements for the "ADR, and Foley for Moving Images Project".
The final project for the Sound Design class involves the combination and synchronization of sound and visual media. The goal of the project is to involve all the competencies listed class the ...
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Friday, April 1st, 2011
Session 1: Today's topic for discussion is ADR, or Automated Dialogue Replacement. ADR is commonly used in movies to replace the on set dialogue. Often the on set dialogue is unusable due to background noise, poor recording levels, or a myriad of other issues that arise while shooting the scene. ...
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Friday, April 1st, 2011
Session 1: No class due to holiday.
Session 2: Today is the first of our in class ADR sessions. One or two of our group will be re-recording their voice actors to picture using Pro Tools HD in the recording studio. We will start by importing the video for the shots ...
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Friday, April 1st, 2011
Session 1: Our schedule for today includes the second in class ADR session. One or two of our group will be re-recording their voice actors to picture using Pro Tools HD in the recording studio. We will start by importing the video for the shots into Pro Tools, then projecting ...
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Friday, April 1st, 2011
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