Sound Design for Moving Image: From Concept to Realization

by Kahra Scott-James

Overview

Sound Design for Moving Image offers a clear introduction to sound design theory and practice to help you integrate sound ideas into your productions. Contemporary soundtracks are often made up of hundreds of separate tracks, and thousands of individual sounds, including elements of dialogue, music and sound effects. As a result, many budding filmmakers find them a daunting prospect, and are tempted to leave sound to the last stages of post-production. This book, from award-winning Sound Designer Kahra Scott-James, encourages you to incorporate sound into your pre-production planning, to make the most of this powerful narrative tool.

Adopting a specific framework in order to help demystify sound design for moving image, the book isn't designed as a sound engineering handbook, but as a guide for moving image content creators wanting to explore sound and collaborate with sound designers. Regardless of medium, the same, or similar concepts can be adopted, adapted, and applied to any project employing sound.

Includes detailed and insightful interviews with leading sound designers, including Randy Thom, Director of Sound Design at Skywalker Sound, and Glenn Kiser, Director of the Dolby Institute, as well as practical projects to help you hone your skills using video and sound files available from the companion website - https://bloomsbury.com/cw/sound-design-for-moving-image - making this is a complete sound course to take you from novice skills to confident practitioner.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474235112
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/05/2018
Series:	Required Reading Range
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	979,585
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Kahra Scott-James is an Audio Producer/Sound Designer at Entirely Sound Ltd, New Zealand and she has lectured across New Zealand, Australia and Ireland in sound for film, animation, digital media and games for the last 14 years. Her screen credits range from short films to features, interactive movies, television series, animation, documentary, and PC/iPod games and her work has been screened in a number of international festivals, with film and television awards from Denmark, Singapore, Korea, NZ, Canada, USA, and Germany.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Early Practice

2. Sound as Design

3. Contemporary Sound Design

4. Preproduction

5. Production

6. Postproduction


Conclusion
Glossary
Index