Sound Editing
| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction | Semester |
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| 306SE | exam | 2 | 26 hours (45 min) of instruction per semester, 31 to 41 hours of self-study | English | winter and summer |
Subject guarantor
Name of lecturer(s)
Contents
An introduction to the principles and methods of sound editing.
Adoption of priniciples and procedures in working with sound tracks:
- The myth of self-saving contact recording (adding special flavor to a feature film or a documentary), danger of contact. Sound–image: counterpoint.
- Postsynchron – advantages and disadvantages. Sound plans (incuding dialogues).
- 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.
- Dialogue, voice-over, off-screen noise – influencing time-space.
- 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:
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| Date | Day | Time | Tutor | Location | Notes | No. of paralel |
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| 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
- Montage_2020 (Required elective subjects)