FT201 Screen Language // Professor Kate Brown

Sound Recording Workshop

 The task of your partnership is to record the following sounds and string them out in a timeline.

• Requirements:

• Equipment: Micro SD Card, Tascam Audio Recorder, Hard Drive, Premiere Pro CC

• Be sure to do an “audio slate” at the start of each recording. For example: “rain effect, take 3.”

• Take turns operating the recording equipment. In every case you should strive to get a solid recording signal that is free of distortion. Be economical; no take should be more than 45 seconds.

• Workshop Sounds to Record:

• A person reciting the lyrics to a favorite song. Be economical. An excerpt is fine.

• A sound with a lot of reverb. This could be voices, footsteps, handclaps, etc. Whatever the case, there should be plenty of reverb.

• A mystery sound. This should be a common sound, but one that the uninformed listener might not immediately recognize. Don’t reveal what the sound is— let us guess!

• The sound of wind or rain. The goal here is to record a sound that accurately represents the way we perceive wind and rain. You will also want to isolate the sound, so that we hear minimal other background noise.

• Premiere Pro CC Stringout

• Create a new folder for this project on your hard drive “sound workshop”; • create a new Premiere Pro CC project and save it in your new folder; • copy the audio files from your memory card to your folder ; • import the audio files from your folder into your Premiere project.

• Edit together the sounds from each category above—one from each; • place the best sounds on timeline in order

• lyric, reverb, mystery, wind/rain; • cut out your slates; • string them all out in order, back-to-back; • create a title for your stringout with both student’s name on it; • have the title play over the entire length of your video.

• Export your final video with sound and title— • present: H.264 • format: High Quality 1080p HD • rename the file: soundworkshop-bothfirstnames.mov

• Submit by copying the final MOV onto the instructor’s flash drive.

FT201 Screen Language // Professor Kate Brown

How to Use the Tascam DR-05 Audio Recorder

Powering On • Pickup your audio recorder (Tascam DR-05) and turn it on by pressing the power button in the

middle, off to the left-hand side. Press and hold this until the screen lights up.

Always wear headphones when you’re recording sound! • Plug in your headphones (1/8”) to the headphone jack (1/8”).

Format (Erase) your Micro SD Card *Only format (erase) your card if you want to delete all of your media from the card! Press Menu > System > Others > Quick Format: Execute

Check Record Settings • Press Menu > Rec Setting… (make sure your settings match these below)

• Bit Rate: 24 • Sample Rate: 48k • Format: WAV • Type: Stereo

Recording Audio • Press the record button once to pre-record. • Press record a second time to officially begin recording. (Be careful, this will get you!) • If you press record a third time…it will pause the recording. • To adjust your record levels—how loud your recording will be when editing:

• Press the backward or forward buttons before (and also while live) recording. • To adjust your headphone volume, press the +/- buttons. • To stop the recording, press the stop button (white square/power button) to end the recording. Note: The next time you hit record the recorder will start a new file.

Recording Level: Optimum recording level is -12dB (peaking around -6dB); check the LCD screen—there is a number off to the right side “-12dB” (see picture below).

Capturing your Media & Stringing-Out Clips • Plug your memory card into the card reader (using the SD card adapter); • Go through the file structure to find your audio clips; • Make a new project folder on your hard drive (“Sound Recording Workshop”); • Copy the audio clips you want into this new folder; • Make a new Premiere project and save it in your new project folder; • Import your audio clips into the project window; • Add your audio clips to the timeline/sequence in the order desired; cut out the slate each clip. • Export your timeline/sequence with your title as (H.264 > High Quality 1080p HD) • Put your clip on the instructor’s flash drive when done.