Week 4 Session: Recording sound

Capture voice and ambient sound that help a viewer understand where they are and what matters.

15 March 2027

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Before the session

Bring headphones if you have them and collect ten seconds of ambient sound from a place you may use in Assignment 1.

We test distance, room tone, wind and monitoring. Students record a short sound portrait and compare what the image alone cannot tell us.

Revise your production plan to include sound: what will the viewer hear at the beginning, middle and end?

W3C: Making Audio and Video Media Accessible explains how meaningful speech and non-speech sound should be represented through captions and transcripts.
Blackmagic Design: Fairlight Audio Guide provides an official starting point for recording, editing and mixing sound in DaVinci Resolve.

Watch a scene once with your eyes closed. What information does sound provide that the image does not?