Audiovisual Production

Objectives

The objective of this subject is to give the student the necessary tools to conceptualize, record, edit, manipulate, construct and experiment with an audiovisual piece, either to create a professional product from an aesthetic and technical point of view or to promote experimental-visual-sound creation.

The subject prepares the student to be able to carry out an audiovisual production (with image and sound). To this end, it delves into audiovisual production and post-production from theory applied to practice. It experiments with procedures, techniques and methods of editing and montage, sound capture and post-production, motion graphics (motion graphics), etc.

Learning outcomes

• Can create a linear temporal discourse using visual and sound resources with artistic criteria.
• It can generate an audiovisual discourse from its own and external elements.
• Learn, analyze and apply visual narrative resources.
• Learn, analyze and apply sound narrative resources.
• Learn about the technical resources for lighting, framing and sounding a video.
• Know both professional and home recording technical equipment.
• Apply their knowledge and problem-solving skills in complex work or professional areas and in specialized areas that require the use of creative and innovative ideas.

Competencies

General skills

• Desire to take part in lifelong learning, innovate, create value and acquire new knowledge.

Specific skills

• Apply techniques and tools of artistic expression and graphic representation with creative spatial awareness through digital technology.
• Know about formats for capture, storage and management of digital audio, images and video for transmission of messages through appropriate audiovisual discourse and artistic criteria.

Basic skills

• Students can apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner and have competencies typically demonstrated through drafting and defending arguments and solving problems in their field of study.

Core skills

• Use oral, written and audiovisual forms of communication, in one's own language and in foreign languages, with a high standard of use, form and content.

Content

Video

• Basic concepts of composition, lighting and movement
• The editing technique: rhythmic, conceptual, narrative, parallel editing, flashback, etc.
• Creation of an audiovisual script. Study of audiovisual pre-production
• Basic on-set and ENG recording tools
• Basic video editing tools. Color correction. Finalization workflow of work depending on the distribution. Export. Basic editing with the Adobe Premiere program
• Motion graphics (motion graphics). Introduction. Interface. Workflow. Layers and masks. Basic animation. With Adobe After Effects
• Visual Effects (visual effects). Adjustment layer, color, chroma, displacement map. Tracking. 3D. With Adobe After Effects

Audio

• Fundamentals of sound. Qualities, contributions and characteristics of sound
• Digital signal processing. Formats and files
• Direct sound processing (with Zoom recorders)
• Sound post-production: editing, mixing and exporting. With Adobe Audition
• Sound and musical narrative. Codes and genres. Music and sound as narrative elements. Useful music
• The soundtrack: dialogues, environments, music and sound effects. Foley. Musical direction

Evaluation

To pass, you must pass the different practices and the grade is weighted.

Carrying out specific work and practices

• Practice 1. Graphics: 10% (recoverable)
• Practice 2. Sound editing: 10% (recoverable)
• Practice 3. TV ad: 10% (in group; non-refundable)
• Practice 4. Animation (After Effects): 10% (recoverable)
• Practice 5. Audio narrative: 10% (recoverable)
• Practice 6. Sound recording and post-production: 10% (recoverable)

Other evaluation activities (non-recoverable)

• Observation, participation and monitoring: 10%
• Specific multi-camera and editing exam: 25%
• Presentation and defense of the TV ad project: 5%

Recovery

At the end of the course, students have the possibility of recovering failed practices. Only individual practices can be recovered, that is, practices 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6.

Methodology

Although the subject is eminently practical, there are some theoretical sessions (video editing, sound recording and editing, motion graphics and visual retouching).

The course is structured in two blocks:

• Introduction/theoretical presentation of basic concepts
• Carrying out individual and group practices and the final group project in tutored sessions according to the different phases: idea, script, recording, import, editing and post-production.

Bibliography

Key references

• (2019). Film Sourcing. Retrieved from http://www.filmsourcing.com/
• (2019). FX Guide. Retrieved from https://www.fxguide.com/
• Ascher, S., Pincus, E. (2012). The filmmaker handbook: a comprehensive guide for the digital age (4 ed.). Plume.
• Fernández Díez, F.; Martínez Abadía, J. (1994). La dirección de producción para cine y televisión. Paidós Comunicación.
• Wyatt, H., Amyes, Tim. (2006). Postproducción de audio para TV y cine (3 ed.). Escuela de Cine y Vídeo.

Further reading

Teachers will provide complementary bibliography and compulsory reading throughout the course via the Virtual Campus.