See also Audio advice and hands on. 

The power of audio, both alone and with images.

Stretching Sound to Help the Mind See by Walter Murch. Murch is a giant in the field of sound for film; Academy-award winner for sound. (Changed to recommended 10/22)

On Sound – by Walter Murch (changed to recommended rather than required 10/19)  This is the one that should be required.

See again Murch’s Rule of Six

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.

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.  Draws on Halliday and Kress et al, social semiotics.

Iversen, Gunnar. 2010. Added value: the role of sound in documentary film theory and visual anthropology, edited by Iversen, G., et al. Kjobjerg, Denmark: Intervention Press in association with the Nordic Anthropological Film Association pp. 70-86.  Dropbox.  Similar to Wingstedt — both cite Chion — but about documentary and ethnographic film.

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.  (Audio link added 10/19)

Voices – narrative and otherwise — from a radio person.

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 in a Dropbox file names Notes on Samuels Anthro of Sound.

Moved:

The power of adding audio to photography:

Long-Form Multimedia Journalism: Quality Is the Key Ingredient

For this topic, we’re interested in the discussion of the Marlboro Marine image and video. Watch at least part of the video “The Marlboro Marine”.

Optional:

Transom.org is a public radio-related site with lots of good info — about both audio content and the technology.  Well worth browsing.  And if you’re serious about audio, it’s a terrific site to follow.