Audio Production

Catalog description

Theory and practice in studio recording and broadcasting techniques, including continuity/news writing, control room operation and audio production. COMM 374 Audio Communication (3) Studio techniques for the production of audio essays, musical portraits, news, and on-air editorials and radio drama are explored through various writing and control room exercises. Students learn how to make interesting, marketable audio material suitable for both broadcast and non-broadcast markets. This course also covers the aesthetic limitations of each format and the marketing potential in the current broadcast and narrowcast markets. The cultural genesis and brief history of each medium and format provides the context for the producer, as will readings covering the ethical and legal constraints particular to each production medium.