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INFB  Introduction to Audio and Video CourseINF
Lecturers : Prof. Eberhard Hasche   eMail
Prof. Alexander Urban   eMail | Homepage
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Course Classification : Informatics Bachelor, Core elective modules B-INF-ProfilCH4
Language : Englisch/Deutsch Type L E
Type of examination : PL  Credits
Method of evaluation : term paper with oral examination 
Requirements :  
Cross References :  
Previous knowledges : Introduction to Digital Media 
Aids and special features : Mode of assessment
Term paper in form of data medium and presentation
Course grade consists of essay and presentation grades. 
Teaching aims : Students will know the basics of how to design time-based media (film/video and audio).
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Students will know the fundamental principles of working in sound studios and will be able to employ this skill in their own projects. They will be able to carry out audio recordings in a studio and on site.
They will be able to design a post-production workflow and use the individual technologies.
Students will know the aesthetic basics of merging image and sound and can link individual media. They will be able to use relevant software programmes (for example, Final Cut Pro, Cinema 4D, Logic Express and ProTools HD). 
Contents :

1. History of film
2. Film and semiotics
3. Film design
4. History of sound in films
5. Introduction to audio studio technology
6. Principles of monophone studio audio recordings
7. Principles of stereophone studio audio recordings
8. Audio post-production
9. Fundamentals of aesthetics in image and sound 

Literature : Harald Schleicher/Alexander Urban (Hg.): Filme machen, Frankfurt am Main 2005
James Monaco: Film verstehen, Reinbek 2000
Jay Rose: Audio postproduction for digital video, CMP San Francisco 2002
Curtis Roads: The computer music tutorial, MIT Press , Cambridge, Mass. 1996
www.electronic-musician.com
www.mixonline.com
www.filmsound.org 


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