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

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

3. 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

4. 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

5. Final product:
A SOUND plot
Cue sheet

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. Kinds of mics
Boom
Remote
lavalier

10. 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

11. Homework Listen to interviews with designers 