Music for Digital Media: resources
Recommended Texts (they can all be found in the library, you don’t need to buy them but you should dedicate some time to consulting them and getting a flavour for what they are about)
The following list should always be used in conjunction with relevant DVD/Videos whenever possible.
- Chion, M., 1994. Audiovision: Sound on Screen Columbia University Press: New York.
- Sonnenschen, D., 2001. Sound Design,The expressive power of music, voice and sound effects in Cinema. Michael Wiese Productions: California.
- Carlin, D., 1991. Music in Film and Video Productions, Focal/Butterworth-Heinemann: New York.
- Davis, R., 2000. Complete Guide to Film Scoring : The Art and Business of Writing Music for Movies and TV, Berklee Press Publications: California.
- Kalinak, K., 1992. Settling the Score: Music and the Classical Hollywood Film. UP: Wisconsin.
Recommended Internet Resources
This blog is in itself a dynamic internet resource. It will grow as the semester progresses with my contributions as well as yours. Consult it often, subscribe to it and you will get updates straight to your preferred email address.
Great care should be taken when reading material on the Internet. Whilst many sites are a valuable source of information, there are no editorial restrictions in place and many sites contain out of date and inaccurate information. You should also be very wary of including material from Internet sites in your written work and you should familiarise yourself with proper referencing procedures and definitions of plagiarism.
http://www.channel4.com/fourdocs/rush/index.html/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cambridgeshire/videonation/
http://www.filmsound.org/
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/why_is_that_thing_beeping_a_sound_design_primer.php
http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/thesoundexchange/
http://creativearchive.bbc.co.uk/
http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_master_commander_far/
http://www.sound-ideas.com/foleymavart.html
http://www24.brinkster.com/carlstalling/Work.htm
http://raymondscott.com/
http://www.filmsound.org/articles/designing_for_sound.htm
http://www.sensitivebrigade.com/WYNNE_BIO_001.htm
Other Resources
You should set some time aside to learn how to login to the University Digital Library there is a wealth of materials there including online journals, e-books and the catalogue for our CD and DVD collections, both of which are constantly growing.
We have amplifiers and percussion instruments. If you visit the Media Centre in the Ruskin Building you can also find video editing suites you can book, as well as being able to borrow video recorders. Portable hard disk recorders can be borrowed from our technician Kevin McCracken, opposite Hel040.
