Creating a soundscape for the play Sound design Creating a soundscape for the play

Sound scape All the music and sound effects in the play considered as a whole.

Soundscape can: motivate actions onstage and indicate events taking place offstage establish the time of day, season and weather locate the action in a specific place create mood and changes in mood stimulate audience expectations of what is to come provide information about the characters build transitions between scenes offer shortcuts that rapidly advance the plot or recall past events

Controllable properties are: Pitch - the wavelength or frequency of the sound Volume - the loudness or quietness of the sound Quality - how pitch and volume combine to give each sound its own distinctive effect Direction - the location of the sound in space and how sound travels from one location to another Duration - the length of time the sound lasts

Final product: A SOUND plot Cue sheet

CUE SHEET A list of all the music and sound cues for each act/scene. It indicates where the sound or music occurs, the page number of the script where it appears, precisely when it begins and ends, and the equipment that will be used to produce it.

SOUND PLOT A system layout shows the type and location of speakers and microphones on stage, on the set in the auditorium. The system layout includes a layout of how all of the sound equipment will be interconnected. Technicians use this to set up the equipment.

Kinds of mics Boom Remote lavalier

Add these to your picture dictionary: cue sheet, sound plot, boom, remote, lavalier, soundscape Why are movies never, ever, ever, done without music? What did you learn from this lesson? JOURNAL ENTRY

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