updated 10/15/13
For Thurs 10/17, if you do nothing else, read (1) Murch On Sound and (2) Murch’s Rule of Six (short) and (3) watch the video clip Apocalypse Now/Ride Of The Valkyries.
See also:
For Thurs 10/17: About sound:
- On Sound – by Walter Murch — [if you’re having trouble opening the videos, try another browser — I could open in Safari but not Chrome] –– and here’s a link to a YouTube copy of most of this scene: Apocalypse Now/Ride Of The Valkyries
- Murch’s Rule of Six
- Wingstedt, J., Brändström, S., & Berg, J. (2010). Narrative Music, Visuals and Meaning in Film. Visual Communication, 9, 193-210. How music affects meaning — with an emphasis on films. Includes Jaws as an example.
- Highly recommended: Samuels, D.W., Meintjes, L., Ochoa, A.M., and Porcello, T. Soundscapes: Toward a Sounded Anthropology. Annual Review of Anthropology 39, 1 (2010), 329-345. Because there is much in here of value to us, but it’s long and we have a lot to read already, I’ve copied some key sentences from this article and put them on a page Notes on Samuels Anthro of Sound.
Tues 10/23: How to:
- Gathering audio from MediaStorm (look at all 3 parts)
- Jay Allison, The Basics — really good expert on basics of audio.
- Sound editing: how much they do on NPR (a lot), and how it’s so much easier with audio than video. Transcript: On the Media. But better to listen to the audio: Pulling back the curtain.
- Voices – narrative and otherwise — from a radio person.
- Audio tutorials from the DKMC center in the Berkeley School of Journalism
We’ll look at Audacity, free audio editing software for Macs. All audio editing software works the same way, so whatever media editing software comes on Windows machines will work similarly.
Chion, Michel. 1994. Audio-vision: sound on screen: Columbia University Press. ch. 1: Projections of sound on image. Dropbox. Chion is the person everyone cites. Murch wrote the Foreword to this book.