Sound Editing

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Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Adoption of priniciples and procedures in working with sound tracks.

Mode of study:

Moderated discussions, free discussions, Media sample analyses, working on exercises.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Awareness of important sound functions in editing composition.

Course 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.

Recommended or required reading:

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

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Credit is awarded on the basis of:

Activity in the course

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Development of the exercises

completion of the final exam

70% participation.

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