March 2017
Beginner
306 pages
9h 40m
English
The true mark of an audio track’s success—to sound so natural under a given scene that it draws no attention to itself.
Walter Schoenknecht, Midnight Media Group
If you really want to find out how important audio is to a video production, just turn off the audio and try to follow the story. You will soon get lost. Look away from the screen, with the audio up, and you can still follow the story. Audio is as important to television as the video image. Audio gives images a convincing realism. It helps the audience feel involved. As Dennis Baxter, sound designer for the Olympics, has written, “Audio, in partnership with video, delivers a holistic experience with all of the intense emotion and interesting nuances ...
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