SOUND BOX (your archive of digital sound effects)

You need to collect sound effects and store them in a digital archive. You can call this archive SOUND BOX. (Apologies, if you cannot work with computers and digitally.)

Keep a back up of SOUND BOX, as this is your resource for post-production. Teacher or similar has to keep this MASTER VERSION OF SOUND BOX.

Keep adding to SOUND BOX.

TEACHER: As students work from SOUND BOX, you will need to delete all the files and copy again from the MASTER VERSION OF SOUND BOX, as a regular procedure. Some of the files in SOUND BOX will get corrupted. When students are in postproduction,  back up of SOUND BOX must be done daily.

There is a problem if new files are saved into SOUND BOX, and not into the back up. You have to set up a procedure for everyone using SOUND BOX. New files have also to be saved into a ADD TO BACK UP folder.

HERE IS THE PROCEDURE FOR COPYING AND PASTING A FILE FROM SOUND BOX.

NEVER remove a file from SOUND BOX (as 'cut' and 'paste'). Always 'copy' and 'paste' into your project, so that the files in SOUND BOX remain for everyone as an archive.

In your folder (for your project), Go - FILE - SAVE AS - SAVE AS TYPE - scroll down to choose the type. We use two sorts of files - .wav files and .MP3 files.

.wav files are BIGGER and so have more detail of sound than MP3s. We can combine MP3s with WAVs in a project.

You can save a .wav file as .MP3, and you will then lose some of the quality of the sound of that file. MP3 is in a category called a 'lossy' file - from lose. It loses some quality. You CANNOT save a .MP3 file as a .wav file. You will only get silence, nothing. You cannot scale up.

See Filmic - styles of radio drama directing and post-production which creatively relate to film for the FILMIC SYSTEM OVERALL approach.

CONTINUING THROUGH THE SITE:    

Production issues in detail

atmos and soundscapes	double frame - triple frame	clustering
underscoring music - fighting the dialogue	Noise	'moving camera' technique
Music	montage	'Will you turn that music down!' 18-second rule
drop-ins	sound pictures	memorability
number the scenes carefully with a system	voice in the mind = interiorizing	time-space rule or jump cut

 

 

 

 

To Index 'A' to 'Z' for this site - use to navigate

This site is 'Radio Drama - directing, acting, technical, learning & teaching, researching, styles, genres'.

This is part of a complete curriculum of scripts, techniques (acting & directing & post-production & genre styles), advice, sound files - effects and atmoses (with no copyright and so free to use), detailed script commentaries, etc. You are welcome to use these sites with no copyright restriction.

See also Alan Beck's site on 'MAKING A RADIO SOAP (SERIAL DRAMA) - a fixed-end soap' at http://www.savoyhill.co.uk/soap/index.html

The url of this site, 'Radio Drama Techniques', is: www.savoyhill.co.uk/technique

To Alan Beck's Radio Hub at http://www.savoyhill.co.uk

To Alan Beck's HOME PAGE at www.savoyhill.co.uk/alan

See more of Alan Beck's work at http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/WFAE/readings/beck/

IF YOU HAVE COMMENTS, PLEASE EMAIL TO : radio@savoyhill.co.uk

ADVICE ON HOW TO USE THIS SITE

This site is in development, for teaching and research. It was started first for BBC project 'Voices' - workshop conducted by Alan Beck for BBC local radio producers 28-4-2003 with Matthew Linfoot, Senior Lecturer, Westminster University, London.

Use this cluster of sites for learning about radio drama production. If you are a student, and you need also to write reflectively about your practical work (a critique), you will find ACADEMIC advice too (theory terms and explanations, and guidance). Additions will be made to this site regularly.

NAVIGATING THE SITE

To index - This will give you an A to Z of all the content of this site.

Note: If the text is too small for you to read, go to VIEW on the top toolbar, then TEXT SIZE, and choose MEDIUM, LARGE or LARGER.

Navigate this site using the back arrow on the top left of the screen.

Use the FAVOURITES on the top toolbar, and create a FOLDER for this site 'Radio Drama Techniques', and FAVOURITE the WELCOME PAGE, and also various other pages in the site. So you can go to FAVOURITES, then the folder 'Radio Drama Techniques', and click on whatever you need. So nagivation around the site becomes quicker.

Copy and paste it into WORD in the following way - ON THE WEB PAGE - Select what you want to copy Or (if all - from the Top Toolbar) EDIT and then SELECT ALL - OPEN WORD - Edit - Paste Special - Unformatted Text

Use QUESTIONS - 'HOW DO I' - to navigate this site.

Disclaimer

Any opinions expressed in this site are the personal opinions of the owner of the site. IF YOU HAVE COMMENTS, PLEASE EMAIL TO : radio@savoyhill.co.uk