Production Introduction to Production Sound

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This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of recording sound for film and moving images. We will explore the vital role of the sound recordist in capturing clean dialogue and immersive environmental sounds. Through hands-on demonstrations and active participation, students will learn techniques to record high-quality sound, both on and off the film set, with available equipment while emphasizing the essential connection between sound and images. Class lessons will be supplemented with texts, films, and imageless soundscape screenings to bring the conceptual into the technical as we form our understanding of recorded sounds. Deep Focus: Filmmaking for the Amateur and the Auteur FILM 3239 Daniel Schmidt Sophomore and Above, Seminar—Fall | 5 credits Film is a language that most of us, from a very young age, have learned to read through immersion. This course is designed to help students deepen this literacy, as well as to learn how to speak the film language for themselves and in collaboration with peers. The seminar will be structured as a crash course in filmmaking that emphasizes a “learning-by-doing” approach. Students will regularly be assigned creative assignments of conceiving, writing, preproducing, shooting, editing, and postproducing various film exercises. Much of the creative work will be done outside of class time. In class, a workshop environment will engage us in screenings, discussions, critiques, revisions, and re-edits of those exercises. Working in groups—in an ever-shifting relation of creative roles and authorship—will afford students the support and resources to explore increasingly complicated film projects. We will engage firsthand in both the problems and pleasures of one of the most highly collaborative art mediums. 65 Filmmaking and Moving Image Arts Cinematography, Color, Composition, and Style