Questions

You need to create six blog videos that are 90 seconds each in it you will be speaking to the camera and answering the questions provided. You wikk have one session to prepare your answers and one session to record the video.

1) What is a sound designer?

A sound designer is a person or group who work with sounds for many different media platforms. These people work by specifying, acquiring, manipulating, and generating different sort of sounds. Most of the time they work with already existing sounds which they may insert into a piece of work or they may work on the actual sound. But some situations call for the sound designers to get creative, an example of this is a dinosaurs roar. No one has that sound because dinosaurs are long extinct, this is where the sound designers need to be creative and create a sound which could mimic the sound to the best quality and amazing depth. Sometimes the job needs people to go outside and do practicals to get sound, this calls for microphones in studios and in some cases out side (explosion and guns outside) etc.

2) What is a sound effect libary?

A sound effects library is a collection of pre recorded sounds. You can see these in softwares like garage band and logic where they have pre recorded sounds for you to use in your work. The british library sound archive in london is the largest collection of recorded sounds in the world, it includes music, a lot of spoken words and many ambeint sounds. It holds up to 3 million recordings and has a data base where you can type what you want and sounds will come up. A search engine for sounds.

3) Discuss the difference between compressed (MP3) and uncompressed (WAV/AIFF) file formats?

MP3 (MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 audio layer) is an encoding format for audio digitally, it works in a way where data is compressed, its used widly as a format for audio sounds in the digital world. Most songs on your phones and other devices use with, hence the name MP3 players. Uncompressed files like the PCM or WAV files are more flexible to use, they can be used in any combination of sampling rates or bitrates, so this is good for storing or preserving an original recording, sort of like how the british library sound archives do. The main difference is that MP3 stores less data by getting rid of the unecessery data whilst wav formats keep every bit of info so MP3 are more better at distributing a sound whilst WAV is there for preserving and getting the best.



4) Discuss the difference between mono stereo and surrond sound?

First of all mono mean one, individual, singular. Therefore it means there is a single source of sound on the hardware, an example of this would be a TV or phone speaker, this is what most technology use because it is possible on most devices unlike surrond which i will get to later.


5) Name a sound designer and talk about them? (history, work e.i.)

Benjamin "Ben" Burtt

6) What is the difference between audio and MIDI?
first midi it stands for musical instrument digital interface, midi is more like a sound keyboard rather than an actual sound, midi devices are like keyboards, music synthisers and drum machines. as you play a note it will send signles to the computer and catalouge the sound perfectly, so you can play a whole rythm on the key board and it will be on the computer on certain softwares like logic pro.

audio, is like a tape recorder were you record sounds and you can play them back or edit them later, this is more widly used but not as acurate as midi as background noise can be picked up.