THE 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Elevator, Sound Design, Audio Engineer
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E ects of theatre sound design: motivate actions onstage. Ex: telephone ringing: indicate events taking place o stage. Ex: tree falling: establish time of day, weather and season, locate action in a speci c place. Ex: crowd noises: create mood and changes mood, stimulate audience expectations of what is to come, provide information without the characters, build transition between scenes, o er shortcuts that rapidly advance plot or recall past events. Components of sound design: music and underscoring. Found source or custom composed: sound e ects. Found or custom built: live ampli cation. Mics on actors, instruments, etc: pre-recorded words, lines, etc, purposeful silence . Not adding to standard noise that comes with a given room. Ex: silence of actors during the punch line of a joke. Wavelength of frequency of sound: volume. Loudness or quietness of sound: quality. How pitch and volume combine to give each sound its own distinctive e ect: direction.
