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Title: Television Production/Camera Operation Author: Kirkwood Community College Last modified by: Christopher Goble Created Date: 5/1/2001 8:50:20 PM – PowerPoint PPT presentation

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Title: Sound Finds a Voice


1
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

2
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?

3
Basic Audio Equipment- Microphones
  • Pickup Patterns
  • Main types
  • Handheld
  • Lav
  • Shotgun/Boom

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

5
Basic Audio Equipment- Mixers
  • Potentiometers
  • VU meter
  • Master/Monitor
  • Input/Output

6
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

7
Digital Audio Editing- Basics
  • Waveform
  • Input levels
  • Trimming
  • Normalize
  • Transitions
  • SegueCutCross-fadeFade in/out

8
Audio Performance
  • Understand what saying, meaning and purpose
  • Find key words
  • Establish mood
  • Pace for correct excitement
  • Find purpose

9
Audio Interview
  • Ask simple direct questions
  • Ask questions to get a meaningful response
  • Ask follow-up questions

10
Audio Story
  • Look for the interesting answers
  • Fill in the gaps
  • Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?
  • Conversational
  • Pyramid News Story Structure

11
Pyramid Style
Lead- answers one to three questions
Body- Fills in the rest
Close- For more information
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