Sound Design Curriculum

How to approach sound for a sound only project, either stereo or surround.
How does this approach change when you are planning for a video project, both sync and non-sync sound

Artistically
Sound quality
The soundscape
What is the psychology of sound

Technically
What are appropriate settings
what are the appropriate tools
mics, software, etc.

How to plan and execute the acquisition
How to mix and master using logic

What are some examples of sound only pieces and sound design in film'video that you would point to for examples to inspire and challenge students' perceptions of what sound can be?

PRE
Overall design and preplanning for a project

PRODUCTION
Mics and Use on location

PREPARING FOR SOUND EDITING
Preparing sequences for audio editing

POST
Dialogue Editing
Sound Effects Editing
Music Editing - needle-drops
Mixer
Mastering
M Box

Potential Guest Artists

Rob D'Amico, 1.781.738.3992, rob@postmasterstudios.com, www.postmasterstudios.com
Mostly behind the scenes - audio mixing and production
schedule -
nov -
dec - out 3 - 10

PRODUCTION - record on location, one channel with one signal, second channel is 6db lower, sudden outbursts this will save you. Editors import that and use both dialogue tracks, can be a slight over-modulation of effects you might use. Someone using a boom and a lav or two lavs. Will use both mics when the other is talking phase

WORK FLOW - editing off line to online edit mastering, what do you set for dialogue settings in export, how pro-tools will interpret it what you might not want to come across from an off-line suite.
Compression, audio effects, may want to start clean, manipulate original sources, may import that without those effects. Understand settings, why to use those or why not;

STEMS (for broadcast or film)- mix minuses, full mix is all dialogue, Everything down into stereo; ME (for foreign distribution) - music and effects; STEMS - Just music File, Just sound effects mix, Just Dialogue mix

Joseph Cusella, 1.508.981.4210, jcusella@gmail.com, www.josephcusella.com

Curriculum - color correcting
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