Post Sound Design: The Art and Craft of Audio Post Production for the Moving Image

by John Avarese, David Landau (Editor)

Overview

Post Sound Design provides a practical introduction to the fascinating craft of editing and replacing dialog, creating Foley and sound effects, editing music, and balancing these elements to a final mix. Based on years of experience and teaching this material to students at Drexel University, award-winning film composer John Avarese offers user-friendly knowledge and stimulating exercises to help compose story, develop characters and create emotion through skillful creation of the sound track. Starting each chapter with a real-life example, the textbook is structured in such a way to create a fundamental understanding of the physics and the biological foundation of hearing, and putting it into practice with suggested movie scenes demonstrating the discussed audio techniques. Post Sound Design engagingly demonstrates the individual areas essential to creating a soundtrack that will enhance any media production.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781501327476
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/29/2017
Series:	The CineTech Guides to the Film Crafts
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

John Avarese is an Associate Teaching Professor at Drexel University, USA, teaching Production Sound, Audio Post-Production, and Scoring to Picture. To date, Avarese has composed over 4000 commissioned scores and recorded an elegant collection of film music, as well as mixing and sound design on hundreds of projects, including 27 theatrical feature films, scores of short films, and six surround sound planetarium features.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
1: What is Sound Design?
2: DAWs
3: Audio Connectors, Microphones
4: Organizing OMFs (or AAFs)
5: Narration
6: Dialog Editing
7: Equalization and Dynamics
8: ADR
9: Sound Design
10: Editing Music
11: Reverbs & Delays
12: Mixing
13: Deliverables
14: Case Studies
Index