Audio and Video Laboratory

Recommended Prerequisites

Basic skills in audio and video production.

Teaching Methods

The teaching methodology is focused on practical training. The classes are organized on an alternate scheme, including enunciation and analysis followed by actual production. Colletive analysis in classes is favored, in order to promote the development of critical thinking.

Learning Outcomes

Audio and video laboratory is an advanced practice program. During the semester the students will produce complex formats and will experiment creative techniques, while developing critical awareness about the production processes.

After the successful completion of this programa, students are expected to:

- be able to analyze contemporary trends of audio documentary, storytelling and sonic art

- produce a short audio or video documentary

- have advanced audio post-production skills

- identify a good story

- understand and decompose different narratives and compositions in audio and video.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Structure and  composition of audiovisual narratives.

2. Digital storylelling.

3. Audio and video documentary.

4. Sound art.

5. Audio post-production.

Head Lecturer(s)

Luís Filipe Silva Gouveia Monteiro

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Project: 100.0%

Bibliography

Biewen, J., Dilworth, A. (Eds.). 2010. Reality Radio: telling true stories in sound. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press.

Block, B. 2013. The visual story: creating the visual structure of film, tv and digital media. Burlington: Focal Press.

Boyd, A., Stewart, P. & Alexander, R. (2008). Broadcast journalism: techniques of radio & television news. Burlington: Focal Press

Gibbs, T. 2007. The fundamentals of sonic art & sound design. Lausanne: AVA Book.

McLeish, R. (2005) Radio production. Burlington: Focal Press.

Zettl, H. 2008. Sight, sound, motion: applied media aesthetics. Belmont: Thomson Wadsworth.

Lancaster, K. 2013. Video journalism for the web: a pacifical introduction to documentary storytelling. London: Routledge.