Sound (Discussion)
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Purposes of sound on television
Television lists four "purposes of sound on television":
- Capturing viewer attention.
- Manipulating viewer understanding of the image.
- Maintaining televisual flow.
- Maintaining continuity within individual scenes.
- In class, we'll view a Dodge commercial and examples of how sound can manipulate viewer understanding of the image--that is, can change its meaning.
- As a group, choose a well-known song that, if laid over the commercial, would change its meaning. Be prepared to explain to the class how the meaning would change.
- Think back to the Chevrolet commercial that we broke down and the shot of Mother, salesman, Father, son in the car. As a group, pretend you're doing ADR (and what is ADR?) for this shot and write dialogue that illustrates how sound editors can manipulate sound perspective to alter our understanding of a scene (somewhat like the sound editor of Wonder Years did in Figure 8.6, but do not copy that example).
- Illustrate how sound and time could be manipulated in this shot with some other dialogue.
- Finally, what type of sound/dialogue could illustrate diegetic vs. nondiegetic sound?
Types of sound
- What are the three main types of sound in TV production and how do digital audio workstations mirror those three types?
- What is "public domain" music? What are "master rights"? How do master rights apply to DVD releases of TV programs?
Sound technology
- Explain the difference between analog and digital recording (postponed from Style and the Camera (Discussion)).
- What are the different types of microphone pick-up patterns? How do they affect sound perspective?
Bibliography
- Butler, Jeremy G. Television: Critical Methods and Applications. Mahweh, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007.