Level/category
Teaching language
Swedish
Type of course
Optional
Cycle/level of course
First
Recommended year of study
3
Total number of ECTS
5 cr
Competency aims
The aim of the course is to create an understanding of the narrative
potential of good sound-design in a film. The course creates an
understanding of how the dialogue, sound, music and silence are
used to support a narrative.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student is expected to be able to create
a sounddesign for motion picture that supports and extends the
narrative.
Course contents
Work in progreess check back in march.
Prerequisites and co-requisites
The technical skills necessary to work with audo to film in your own
digial audio worksation.
Previous course names
-
Additional information
It is a new course and it is under development during spring 2017
Recommended or required reading
Altman, Rick (1992). Sound theory, sound practice. New York:
Routledge.
Chion, Michel (1999). The voice in cinema. New York: Columbia
University Press.
Chion, Michel (2005). Audio-vision: sound on screen. New York:
Columbia University Press.
Dolar, Mladen (2006). A voice and nothing more. Cambridge,
Massachusetts: The MIT press.
Dykhoff, Klas (2002). Ljudbild eller synvilla?. Kristianstad,
Kristianstads bocktryckeri AB.
Eyman, Scott (1997). The speed of sound: Hollywood and the talkie
revolution 1926-1930. New York: Simon & Chuster Inc.
Filmsound.org (1997). Foley.

Study activities
- Lectures - 21 hours
- Excursions and demonstrations - 14 hours
- Project- and production work/artistic activities - 40 hours
- Individual studies - 40 hours
- - 20 hours
Workload
- Total workload of the course: 135 hours
- Of which autonomous studies: 135 hours
- Of which scheduled studies: 0 hours
Mode of Delivery
Participation in tuition
Assessment methods
- Exams (written-, oral-, home-)
- Essays, reports, productions and portfolio
Assessment requirements
To pass the course the student should pass the following
examinations:
Examination 1, written exam
Examination 2, sound design production
Examination 3, essay
Examination 4, learning diary
The examinations contribute to the final grade as follows:
1: 20% 2:30% 3:30% 4:20%
Teacher
Grönvall John
Examiner
Grönvall John
Home page of the course
Group size
No limit
Assignments valid until
12 months after course has ended
The timetable of the course
Kursen går under perioden 2.5.2017-28.7.2017
Exakta datum meddelas inom mars månad. Obs bokningarna här
nedanför är preliminära, jag väntar på bekräftelse från DIAK!
Assessment methods
- Date of examination will be announced later - Exams
- Date will be announced later - Reports and productions