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Today with James Fox we did a lesson on audio and technicalities behind it in the media industry. Here are the following notes I made:


Three different parts of audio for TV and film:
  • Voice
  • Music
  • Sound Effects
The sound hearing range for humans is 20Hz - 20,000 Hz - Wavelength/ Waveform
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There is 2 Channels for stereo: left and right

When recording voice in stereo: left and right - meter

2 microphones: on-board and external mic such as a  shotgun mic / directional /
416 - these mics are used on boom poles

Record sound using two mics - sound different areas

On-board mic records ambient and voice (wild track - ambient sound)

External mic records just voice


These are VU meters:



This is a PPM meter:



 PPM levels for TV (Peak programme meter)

Voice: 5.5 PPM
SFX: 3 PPM
Music:4 PPM

Adverts: 6 PPM

Audio Level

Me using the Zoom H4 to record audio:



Timecode:

H  M   S    F (Frames)
10:00:00:00

Here I adjusted the time-code to 10 hours in adobe Premiere Pro - this is an important process in video editing as all editors do this when editing videos.



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