Handbook

In this course, you will explore the role of sound design in constructing screen-based audiovisual work, looking at how the overall soundtrack acts as a storytelling component from preproduction to post-production in video and animation. By analysing the primacy of sound in forming connections between sequenced images and determining the pace and focus of the storytelling, you will analyse how sound can provide an important character perspective - rather than camera perspective - in both traditional and experimental moving image forms. This course will enable you to alter the perceptions and meanings of existing audiovisual work, referencing both the traditional Hollywood model and experimental variations of the audiovisual relationship. You will be involved in the scripting, planning and execution of sound design, with production of the soundtrack for audiovisual work using pre-existing video or animation components. Building on your previous studies, you will learn how to use sound studios, audio samplers and other creative tools to record and produce both stereo and surround sound by manipulating all layers of the soundtrack. The studio knowledge and audiovisual skills provided in this course expand on traditional and experimental techniques and concepts of storytelling relevant across a wide range of video, animation and cross-media practices.