Sound Editing

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
306SE exam 2 26 hours (45 min) of instruction per semester, 31 to 41 hours of self-study English winter and summer

Subject guarantor

Václav FLEGL, Ivo HEGER

Name of lecturer(s)

Václav FLEGL, Ivo HEGER

Contents

An introduction to the principles and methods of sound editing.

Adoption of priniciples and procedures in working with sound tracks:

  1. The myth of self-saving contact recording (adding special flavor to a feature film or a documentary), danger of contact. Sound–image: counterpoint.
  2. Postsynchron – advantages and disadvantages. Sound plans (incuding dialogues).
  3. Music in film – leitmotif, characterization of characters, music as a dramaturgical factor. Work with archive music (knowledge of forms, development of motifs). Does music belong in a documentary? Chorus.
  4. Dialogue, voice-over, off-screen noise – influencing time-space.
  5. Creation of sound score, putting sound on various reels, mixing sheets – silence and sound detail.

Mixpult.

Learning outcomes

Adoption of priniciples and procedures in working with sound tracks.

Prerequisites and other requirements

Awareness of important sound functions in editing composition.

Literature

Practical Art of Motion Picture Sound

by David Yewdall

Paperback: 424 pages

Publisher: Focal Press; 2nd Revised edition edition (7 May 2003)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0240805259

ISBN-13: 978-0240805252

Invisible Storytellers: Voice-Over Narration in American Fiction Film

by Sarah Kozloff

Paperback: 167 pages

Publisher: University of California Press (November 3, 1989)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0520067932

ISBN-13: 978-0520067936

Sound Theory, Sound Practice (AFI Film Readers)

by Rick Altman

Paperback: 304 pages

Publisher: Routledge (June 30, 1992)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0415904579

ISBN-13: 978-0415904575

Evaluation methods and criteria

Credit is awarded on the basis of:

Activity in the course

Presentations

Development of the exercises

completion of the final exam

70% participation.

Note

none

Schedule for winter semester 2023/2024:

06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
room
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FLEGL V.
09:00–11:00
(parallel1)
Pod Kavalírkou 32, Prague 5, starts on 06/11/2023
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel
Mon 09:00–11:00 Václav FLEGL
Pod Kavalírkou 32, Prague 5, starts on 06/11/2023 parallel1

Schedule for summer semester 2023/2024:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans