Sound design assets and variation sets with a written commentary

2 - Project output (other than dissertation) - 80

Sound design skills

1 - Practical skills assessment - 20

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Topics may include:  
<ul><li>Working with clients, working to a brief </li></ul>
<ul><li>Sound in advertising: idents and sonic branding </li></ul>
<ul><li>Functional sounds for everyday technology and appliances </li></ul>
<ul><li>Creating variation sets </li></ul>
<ul><li>Basics of sound design for audio-visual media </li></ul>
<ul><li>Basics of sound design for games and interactive media </li></ul>
<ul><li>Sound in motion: gestures, processes, events </li></ul>
<ul><li>Sound and spatiality </li></ul>
<ul><li>Advanced sonic transformations </li></ul>

Feedback is provided in a number of ways throughout your module. This includes feedback you receive during teaching from both peers and lecturers and that provided for formative assessment. Following an assessment, you will be given your marks and feedback in line with the assessment regulations and policy. More information on the timing and type of feedback that will be provided for each assessment will be available from the module leader. <a href='https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations'>https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations</a>

This module will support the development of all the graduate attributes. Your module leader will provide you with information about how your learning, teaching and assessment activities support your development of these attributes. The graduate attributes are: - Always learning - Engaged in the world - Technical and digital - Connected Professional - Creating Impact

In-Person - 

Self-directed - 

The Audio Expert.

Sound for Moving Pictures: The Four Sound Areas.

 Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound. 

Refining Sound.

 The Computer Music Tutorial.

Oxford Handbook of Music and   Advertising. 

Math Fundamentals for Audio.

Studying Sound: A Theory and Practice of Sound Design.

Playing with Sound: A Theory of Interacting with Sound and Music in Video   Games. 

Sound Works: A Cultural Theory of Sound Design.

MU1509 - Sound Design 2: Professional Applications

MU1509-PRD2-PER-ALV1

The module is delivered through a series of lectures and practical workshop activities. You may be set guided study tasks and specially recorded video tutorials as well as reading or listening for your self-directed study hours.

Sound Design 2: Professional Applications

Develop a range of sounds using industry-standard synthesis and spatialisation techniques. 

Skills

Identify and evaluate the required digital audio techniques in order to achieve specific sonic outcomes. 

Knowledge

Demonstrate the ability to plan and execute a commercial sound design project to a brief. 

Demonstrate care and attention to detail commensurate with commercial product standards. 

Values and attitudes

Appraise your own work against commercial product standards. 

Appreciate the use of sound in a diverse range of commercial contexts. 

Create asset collections to industry standards. 

Apply an understanding of sound and spatiality to the branding of commercial products in an everyday context. 

Define and apply the full range of concepts pertaining to the uses of sound in commercial products. 

Apply a range of relevant software-based techniques to analyse, generate, and transform sounds. 