DM203: Audio Recording, Engineering and Editing

Credit Hours:
3
Estimated Hours Per Week:
5

Overview

This course will encompass a general knowledge of the principals of storytelling through the use of audio elements. You will use sophisticated equipment such as microphones and digital recording devices to produce soundtracks for storytelling elements and to provide an audio compliment to video productions. You will create a course project that tells a story without pictures, including the use of Foley sounds, music tracks, and synchronous narrative or dialog.

In this course you will learn to control the environment of the story through sounds—how to shape and augment the experience of the audience and generate a sense of reality in their experience. You will learn sound gathering and editing techniques and develop an understanding of the equipment used to capture and manipulate sound.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  • Demonstrate understanding of the importance of audio for visual storytelling.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of different uses of sound and develop a sense of the three basic sound elements in storytelling.
  • Apply a general understanding of the equipment used to acquire, manipulate, and edit audio recordings.
  • Synthesize aural elements that help to improve the quality of visual storytelling.
  • Demonstrate an overall knowledge of how location sounds are recorded and processed.
  • Demonstrate an overall knowledge of how studio sounds are controlled, recorded, and processed.
  • Analyze, process, and compose sounds to tell a story with continuity and clarity.
  • Synthesize a storyline that reveals a reality without the use of pictures.
ENROLLMENT
To enroll in this course, please complete the online application.

Special Requirements

  • Audio capturing and editing software such as Audacity (free download for Windows, Linux, or Mac) or GarageBand (Mac).
  • A USB microphone (if recording with a laptop) or a standard unidirectional microphone (if recording with a digital voice recorder).

Required Texts
DM203 texts are available from the JIU/MBS bookstore