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#Maintaining continuity within individual scenes. | #Maintaining continuity within individual scenes. | ||
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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. | 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. (No R-rated songs, please.) We'll find an excerpt of it online and lay it over the commercial. Be prepared to explain to the class how your song changes the commercial's meaning. | #As a group, choose a well-known song that, if laid over the commercial, would change its meaning. (No R-rated songs, please.) We'll find an excerpt of it online and lay it over the commercial. Be prepared to explain to the class how your song changes the commercial's meaning. | ||
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#*Finally, include audio that illustrates the difference between diegetic vs. nondiegetic sound. | #*Finally, include audio that illustrates the difference between diegetic vs. nondiegetic sound. | ||
− | + | '''Types of sound''' | |
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− | #''' | + | #'''Group 2:''' What are the three main types of sound in TV production and how do digital audio workstations mirror those three types? ([http://tvcrit.com/find/protools See ''Ugly Betty'' ProTools layout for music editor.]) |
+ | #'''Group 3:''' What is "public domain" music? What are "master rights"? How do master rights apply to DVD releases of TV programs? | ||
==Sound technology== | ==Sound technology== | ||
− | # ''' | + | # '''Group 4:''' Explain these terms in the context of digital audio: sampling, dynamic range, and frequency response. |
− | # ''' | + | # '''Group 1:''' What are the different types of microphone pick-up patterns? How do they affect ''sound perspective''? (''Ugly Betty'' example?) |
[[File:Mad-Men-January-on-set l.jpg]] | [[File:Mad-Men-January-on-set l.jpg]] | ||
== Bibliography == | == Bibliography == | ||
− | #Butler, Jeremy G. ''Television: Critical Methods and Applications''. | + | #Butler, Jeremy G. ''Television: Critical Methods and Applications''. New York: Routledge, 2012. |
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
*[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/Dodge1957/ Dodge commercial] | *[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/Dodge1957/ Dodge commercial] | ||
− | *[http://www. | + | *[http://www.routledge.com/cw/butler-9780415883283/s1/gallery-10/ Sound chapter illustrations] |
*[http://tvcrit.com/find/burns George Burns, direct address] | *[http://tvcrit.com/find/burns George Burns, direct address] | ||
*[http://tvcrit.com/find/mac Bernie Mac direct address] | *[http://tvcrit.com/find/mac Bernie Mac direct address] |
Revision as of 14:55, 15 November 2012
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.
All groups: sound exercises
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. (No R-rated songs, please.) We'll find an excerpt of it online and lay it over the commercial. Be prepared to explain to the class how your song changes the commercial's meaning.
- 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, include audio that illustrates the difference between diegetic vs. nondiegetic sound.
Types of sound
- Group 2: What are the three main types of sound in TV production and how do digital audio workstations mirror those three types? (See Ugly Betty ProTools layout for music editor.)
- Group 3: What is "public domain" music? What are "master rights"? How do master rights apply to DVD releases of TV programs?
Sound technology
- Group 4: Explain these terms in the context of digital audio: sampling, dynamic range, and frequency response.
- Group 1: What are the different types of microphone pick-up patterns? How do they affect sound perspective? (Ugly Betty example?)
Bibliography
- Butler, Jeremy G. Television: Critical Methods and Applications. New York: Routledge, 2012.