Course Unit / Audio and Video Laboratory

Audio and Video Laboratory

Year
1
Academic year
2021-2022
Code
02027348
Subject Area
Communication Sciences
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Other Languages of Instruction
English
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
10.0
Type
Elective
Level
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado

Recommended Prerequisites

Level C1 in English.

Teaching Methods

Teaching methodologies are based on seminar work and tutorial supervision. The teaching methodology is focused on practical training. The classes are organized on an alternate scheme, including enunciation and analysis followed by actual production. Collective analysis in classes is favored, in order to promote the development of critical thinking.

Learning Outcomes

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

After the successful completion of this seminar, 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 post­production skills

- identify a good story

- understand and critically analyse different narrative strcutures in audio and video.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Structure and composition of audiovisual narratives

2. Digital storytelling

3. Audio and video documentary

4. Sound art

5. Audio post­production.

Head Lecturer(s)

Patrícia Nogueira da Silva

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Project: 100.0%

Bibliography

Abel, J. 2015. Out on the wire: The storytelling secrets of the new masters of radio. New York: Broadway Books.

Biewen, J., Dilworth, A. (eds.) 2017. Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound. The Univ of North Carolina Press. 2nd ed.

Block, B. 2013. The Visual Story: Creating the Visual Structure of Film, TV and Digital Media. Burlington:Focal Press

Gibbs, T. 2007. The Fundamentals of Sonic Art & Sound Design. Lausanne: AVABook.

Lancaster, K. 2013. Video Journalism for the Web: A Practical Introduction to Documentary storytelling. London:Routledge

May, S. 2013. “Writing for Sound/Radio”, Harper,G.ed. A Companion to Creative Writing. Wiley-Blackwell,86-97

McLeish, R. 2005 Radio production. Burlington:FocalPress

Weibel, P. 2019. Sound Art: Sound as a Medium of Art. MIT Press

Williams, B.T. 2013. “Writing Creative Nonfiction”, Harper,G.ed. A Companion to Creative Writing. Wiley-Blackwell, 24-39.

Zettl, H. 2008 Sight, Sound, Motion: Applied Media Aesthetics. Belmont:Thomson Wadsworth.