Digital Sound Production PDF

Digital Sound Production Reviewer HANDOUT 1 DIGITAL SOUND PRODUCTION FOR BROADCAST AND INTERACTIVE MEDIA - Radio broadcasting and radio drama were popular entertainment. - Radio listeners are slowly declining because people are now switching to the latest online streaming platforms....

Digital Sound Production Reviewer HANDOUT 1 DIGITAL SOUND PRODUCTION FOR BROADCAST AND INTERACTIVE MEDIA - Radio broadcasting and radio drama were popular entertainment. - Radio listeners are slowly declining because people are now switching to the latest online streaming platforms. - Digital platforms such as Youtube, Spotify, and other audio streaming platforms. - Entertainment purposes, but already becoming a channel for advertising and marketing. AUDIO BROADCASTING IN THE DIGITAL AGE - Advent of digital audio workstations and other digital audio tools has brought a critical shift. - Empowering amateur and professional audio content creators - Producing high-quality audio content. - Sound is essential in multimedia production because it will help to create the mood and establish the environment. - Incorporating audio with multimedia, the interaction experience of the users will also improve as they have the chance to immerse themselves with the content. HOW DIGITAL AUDIO IS USED THESE DAYS - Education - Information - Entertainment - Advertising and Marketing - Virtual Reality - Games THE NEW RADIO - Back then, listeners used to buy a radio to the store, but, later on there’s already a radio included with our smartphones, and now it is also available all over the internet. - Live broadcasting is already made possible with the new technology. CONTENT - content is changing to what’s relevant - creating content that has value and something worth consuming for the listeners, would help for improvement. DISTRIBUTION - Where to distribute the content. - Need to consider the target audience, what platform are using, or listening to the content.  PROCESSING - Content empowers the users with their choice, control, and convenience. - Allow your audience freedom to choose when, where, and how will listen to your content. - It is important to be flexible in distribution HANDOUT 2 RADIO DRAMA - Dramatized performance that’s being broadcast on air. - Does not have visual, mostly relies on dialogue, music, and sound effects - A narrative-dramatic genre and art form in its own right, radio drama has traditionally crossed medical and generic boundaries. - Listening to a radio drama means using your imagination to get the story - Mp3 and wav is advisable - Done per episode, 20 minutes and can last up to an hour RECOMMENDED LOUDNESS Max target loudness - 18 LUFS Min. target loudness - 24 LUFS Peak - -1.5 to -2 dB USING RADIO DRAMA - Form of entertainment - Immerse yourself with the characters and the story while listening to it. FROM RADIO TO AUDIO DRAMA - 41.4 percent listen to the radio at least once a week (2012) - Traditional radio drama is already starting to fade due to advancement of technology - It means instead of turning on our radio, we turn to digital platforms like spotify. - Audio drama can already be flexible - Online audio drama created the potential not just for new forms, patterns of listening or for revised methods of plot structuring. ELEMENTS OF RADIO/AUDIO DRAMA MUSIC - Sets the mood and the atmosphere of the story - Intro and outro music SOUND EFFECTS - Make it easier for the listeners to imagine what’s happening in the scene - Easier to understand and immerse themselves in the story and the characters - Foley is also utilized here. NARRATION - Tells about the action or what is going to happen in the story. - Narrator is the storyteller - Easier to understand the story since in audio drama audience doesn’t see anything, only hear sounds DIALOGUE - What the voice actors are saying for the listeners to understand the story’s happening. HOW TO CREATE AN AUDIO DRAMA STORY - Conceptualize and establish the story first - Writing a story for an audio drama is also like writing when you do film or video. It’s just the platform is different. - Exert more effort in sound design and sound effect to make your listeners more realistic and immersive. PLATFORM - Determine where you will put your audio drama RESOURCES - Resources that will be needing in audio production - Sound editing tools, microphones, where to record, and how to record, materials for your sound effects/ SCRIPT - Writing the script - Outline and organize the sequence of every scene PRODUCTION - Production itself - All the things that will be needed already have. EDITING - Cleaning up and edit the audio LAUNCHING - Ready to upload to chosen platform AUDIO DRAMA SCRIPT - Dialogue of voice actors - Sequence and flow of the story and scenes for the audio drama HANDOUT 3 PODCAST - online digital audio programs - disseminated via online subscription that are easily accessible through computers or smartphones  - deep, temporal way of telling a story - way of telling the story in a way that many people will pay attention to for long periods. - can do a podcast as immediate, and as personal it can be. - don't need a lot of equipment to do storytelling - 15 – 30 minutes is already ideal for podcasts -.mp3 or.wav is advisable RECOMMENDED LOUDNESS Max target loudness - 16 LUFS Min. target loudness - 20 LUFS Peak - -1 to -2 dB WHERE CAN WE USE PODCASTS? Education - another way to teach new content - suited for passive learners, auditory learners - help a student to recall a certain lesson easily. - engaging audio and broadcast their content to which their students can listen any time, anywhere. Self-Motivation/Self-Growth - podcast episode wherein the content’s goal is to motivate the listener, encourage, and provide helpful self-growth tips. - uplift others and encourage them. Culture - use the podcast to spread and inspire cultural awareness - help others to learn more about a culture of a certain country or community. Advocacy - If you have an advocacy and want to educate people about what you are advocating for, maybe you can take advantage of the podcast and create a series relating to it. News - podcasts are helpful to keep us informed of what’s happening around us anywhere, anytime. HOW TO CREATE A PODCAST? CONCEPT - where you’ll begin - start with an idea - “What’s my podcast all about?” “What do I want for my podcast?” (Be specific) FORMAT  - format will dictate how your story will be told - will serve as the listener’s roadmap about what’s going on inside your episode. - blueprint that makes your podcast your podcast. CENTRAL QUESTIONS - Find the central question that you’re podcast would like to answer - To answer that main question, you go back to your format. - Ask yourself, “What format will best answer that question?”. AUDIENCE - Define your audience so that you know how you will focus your show - Who do you imagine, or who do you want to listen to your podcast? Who are you building your performance for? LISTEN TO OTHER PODCAST - what we do in visual research - checking for pegs and inspiration STYLE AND TONE - decide how you want your podcast to sound like for your audience - Do like it to sound upbeat, relaxing, etc. PLANNING YOUR PILOT EPISODE SPEND TIME CRAFTING YOUR STORY - A good story, regardless of format, has a beginning, middle, and end. - think about something that will take your listeners on a journey WRITE AN OUTLINE - create a detailed outline of how your podcast will sound like - serve as the flow of your show, and it also serves as your script GET YOUR RESOURCES 1. MICROPHONE - would like to use, condenser or a dynamic mic 2. MIXER, INTERFACE OR COMPUTER 3. SOFTWARE 4. SOUNDS