Mastering the application of creative sound to support and enhance visual storytelling, you will create your own Sound Design Production. You will develop advanced sound recording and mixing techniques, both on location and in the studio. You will organise your recordings within a digital audio workstation, cleaning, colouring, and creative manipulating sound to support a visual narrative.

You will explore the history, conventions, and narrative language of sound design across film (visual) and audio (non-visual) narratives. You will analyse and explore narrative sound design and apply a range of creative and technical skills related to the pre-production, production and post-production processes.

Developing your critical and contextual understanding of sound design you will identify a professional sound designer of choice to research and analyse, communicating your findings via a short 5-minute presentation to staff and peers.

1. Sound Design Production – Assessing Learning Outcomes – 1, 2 and 3 – Weighted at 80%
2. Presentation – Assessing Learning Outcomes – 1, 4 and 5 – Weighted at 20%

You will take responsibility for your own learning and engage with a variety of teaching and learning activities throughout the module. Knowledge and understanding will be developed through a series of mixed-mode learning sessions, workshops, meetings, tutorials, technical instructions sessions and independent study tasks.

There will be opportunities to share and critique your work with your peers during the module and you will be encouraged to participate and engage with large and small group discussions. This module will be supported by a range of Technical Instruction sessions that will give your access to the portable equipment and software required to complete your project.

1. Demonstrate knowledge and critical understanding of the well-established concepts, principles and their development involved in the creation and application of creative sound design. Knowledge and Understanding

2. Make creative and technical decisions to assist storytelling through creative sound design. Problem-solving

3. Demonstrate the application of creative sound to support and enhance visual storytelling. Application

4. Use appropriate research, access a variety of sources and draw conclusions from those findings; demonstrating knowledge, understanding and application of creative sound design. Enquiry

5. Identity, compare, and contrast historical/contemporary creative sound design and apply findings, where appropriate, to a practical audio production project. Analysis

Portable video and audio recording equipment
Specialist Media Labs – Post-Production Editing, Sound Mixing, Colour Grading
Library Books and Journals
LinkedIn Learning
Academic Study Skills Tutors
Box of Broadcasts BoB

Ament, V.T. (2014) The Foley Grail: The Art of Performing Sound for Film, Games, and Animation, Oxford: Focal Press.

Chapman, J., Glancy, M., and Harper, S. (2009) The New Film History, London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Corrigan, Timothy and Patricia White (2004) The Film Experience, London: Palgrave.

Cross, M. (2013). Audio Post Production, Milwaukee, WI: Berklee Press Publications.

Sonnenschein, D. (2001). Sound Design, Studio City, CA: Michael Wiese Productions.

Viers, R. (2014). The Sound Effects Bible, Studio City, CA: Michael Wiese Productions.

Whittington, William (2007) Sound Design and Science Fiction. Texas: University of Texas Press.

Mastering the application of creative sound to support and enhance visual storytelling, you will create your own Sound Design Production. You will develop advanced sound recording and mixing techniques, both on location and in the studio. You will organise your recordings within a digital audio workstation, cleaning, colouring, and creative manipulating sound to support a visual narrative. You will explore the history, conventions, and narrative language of sound design across film (visual) and audio (non-visual) narratives. You will analyse creative sound designers and apply a range of creative and technical skills related to the pre-production, production, and post-production processes.