Discipline Skills A (Sound Design)

This subject is not offered in 2013.

120 Hours

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Student Support and Engagement Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Overview, Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Generic Skills sections of this entry.

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Discipline Skills A (Sound Design) addresses knowledge and techniques specific to the discipline of sound design in the performing arts. Through skills classes and contextual seminars the subject explores the role of the sound designer as part of a creative team, defining the skills, qualities and processes that are essential to the practicing professional sound designer.

Students will also attend classes focused on the role of text in sound design (with text conceived broadly to include the languages of plays, film and TV, non-narrative text and non-textual narrative), with the aim of developing a relationship to text as a motivator in the performance arts. On completion of this subject students should have developed an understanding of the processes of sound design for the performance, hybrid and non-performance arts, its relationship to set and lighting design, the roles of other creative artists such as other designers, the director and choreographer, and a historical and social understanding of sound in the arts.

On completing this subject students will be able to:
• demonstrate computer design and control skills;
• work collaboratively with other creative team members on the development of design concepts;
• demonstrate the ability to develop concepts through a specific design process.

Practical/written assignments equivalent to 2 X 2,000 word essays; 80%

Participation 20%

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

On completing this subject students will have developed the following skills:
• the ability to create and organise aesthetic material;
• the ability to solve problems;
• the ability to interpret and analyse;
• the capacity for critical thinking;
• the ability to synthesize data and other information;
• the ability and a commitment to collaborating ethically and openly with others.