Class Sound for Animation

This course aims at developing competences in audio production and post-production tied to the development of audio-visual materials. The course enables the student to be creative by relying on recent audio technology and on a critical analysis of the audio-visual communication strategies in use in contemporary society. Throughout the syllabus, mechanisms that allow for efficient image/sound articulations will be studied and techniques will be developed so as to create working sonic narratives.

1. Sound in cinema: a historical perspective
2. Aesthetic and semiological perspectives associated with the relationship between sound and moving image;
3. Fundamentals of acoustics;
4. Introduction to digital audio: file formats and signal conversion systems;
5. Studio equipment: equalization, dynamic processing, modulation and effects;
6. Micophones: types and polar patterns;
7. Foley sound capture;
8. ADR and dialogue replacement;
9. Editing, mixing and assembly techniques;
10. Dynamic normalization;
11. Creative approaches to sonic manipulation;
12. Sound restoration;
13. Exercises to apply acquired knowledge; 

Oral exposition sessions relying on multimedia presentation equipment and MIDI keyboard. Important support materials will be supplied via ULHT's e-Learning platform (Moodle) and via email.

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HOLMAN, T. (2012), Sound for Film and Television. Taylor & Francis
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RUMSEY, Francis, McCORMICK, Tim (2009), Sound and Recording, Oxford, FocalPress-Elsevier. 
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