Essential Sound Recording Techniques

Wish you could compete with big-budget Hollywood’s audience impact? In the highly competitive world of multimedia production, the independent creative must seize every advantage to gain followers, make money, and get more clients. There may be no more efficient means to do this than having powerful and immersive sound in your productions. This course is a powerful introduction to the non-intuitive art of capturing excellent audio recordings of dialog, music and sound effects for multimedia and podcast implementation. Master presenter Mark Edward Lewis covers the essential and hidden-by-Hollywood aspects of professional recording on set, in studio, and in the field. He will show you how to maximize the equipment you already have to generate emotional and artifact-free sound. He will also expose attendees to cutting edge equipment and techniques for streamlining the post production process by solving audio problems in pre-production.

This course is mandatory education for anyone who wishes to compete in the multimedia marketplace. It is an intensive, comprehensive deep-dive into the world of audio-visual immersion, and attendees from audio-beginners to experienced filmmakers will have a great deal of fun learning how easy it can be to create or ruin powerful immersive experiences for audiences.  Empower yourself and witness your creative vision come alive following attending this course when you can execute the most important aspect of multimedia storytelling at the highest level: Capturing Sound. 

Topics Covered:

• Introduction to Sound for Media
  • The Power of Sound vs. Visuals
  • Your Brain is Always Lying to You (about sound)
  • Demonstration of the three main aspects of sound
• Audio Terminology, Technology and Concepts Illuminated
• Microphone Types
  • On set Uses and Best Practices
  • Lavaliers
  • Placement and Hiding
• Wind and How To Solve It
• Wireless and the FCC
  • Never Have an RF Hit Again
  • What to do about Illegal Transmitters
  • Best Gear Choices
• Loop Groups - In Your Home - Demonstration
• Recorders
  • Demonstration Camera vs. phone vs. recorder audio
  • The Process of Recording (DO NOT DEVIATE!)
  • Setting Up Recorders for Success (and your Camera)
• Jobs On Set
• Small Shoot to put into use what was learned
• Dealing with Noise On Set
• Can’t I Just Record Into My Phone?
• Introduction to Post Audio Process