www.avnetwork.com: “Audio is King”—that was the soundest piece of advice that came from my college experience.
I first heard the statement in my digital journalism class, a course geared towards teaching us the skills necessary to produce and edit our own videos for a news environment.
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I have to agree wholeheartedly with this article, audio is king. Sound is such a prevalent part of our everyday lives, that silence even for the shortest time has become uncomfortable. Even in when sleeping sound pollution invades our dreams, so we've adapted and as such sound designers must adapt. To fully involve the audience they've started to include things going it the background, undertones to monologues, and even minute changes in the muffledness of noises. Sound and its manipulation has become an dart form in and of it self, and just as the well trained actor can make an audience cry, a talented sound designer can influence the very path a show takes.
I really like the title of this article, and I think that it brings up a lot of really good points. When I see a live broadcast, the things I think about are all the different camera angles, the numerous technicians running them, the video mixing, the graphics and all of the lighting in order to illuminate everything just right for the camera. I never really thought of how important sound was in that context, because in the broadcasts I’ve seen the sound has been so good and clear that it wasn’t something I noticed. Looking at it now though, the sound for those sorts of broadcasts is critical. The cameras and lighting can be fantastic, but if there’s a weird background noise or a loss of fidelity, everything will seem much worse. The same can be said for bad lighting or low quality camera equipment, but we already knew that and were thinking about those aspects. I find it interesting how the aspect we don’t think about, because it’s typically done so well that it isn’t noticed, is just as critical to the final product.
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