Assignment #5 Audio and Earth Day
For Advanced Students: April 22nd is Earth Day. Please create a 30-second video Public Service Announcement for Earth Day and how we can take better care of this precious resource we call home.
Here are a couple websites that can help you:
https://mediacommons.psu.edu/2017/02/14/public-service-announcement/
https://www.govtech.com/education/news/How-to-Create-the-Perfect-Public-Service-Announcement.html
This is due, on...you guessed it...April 22nd!
For Beginning Students
There is so much to learn about audio! I just wish I could see you all in class so I can demonstrate and show you all that I want you to learn about microphones and audio. This Power Point will have to do.
Please take a look at (and listen to) this Power Point and then please work on filling out the worksheet below.
Submit the worksheet to me via Google Docs and be sure to turn Link Sharing "On" and get a "shareable link" to send to me. Otherwise, I won't be able to see your work and grade it.
To get credit, please turn this in to me by Wednesday, April 22nd.
Worksheet on Characteristics of Microphones and Audio
Name___________________________
Date____________________________
Class____________________________
1.
What are we
around every day that we cannot see yet we perceive?
2.
What does it
mean to have selective hearing?
3.
What kind of
sound can your microphone pick up that you may not be able to hear?
4.
In what
direction does sound travel?
5.
What is
ambient noise?
6.
What are the
two main types of microphones (the answer is their pick up patterns)?
7.
What does an
audio mixer allow you to do?
8.
What kind of
mic is a shotgun mic?
9.
How can you
stop sound waves from bouncing?
10.
What is the
basic principle of recording good audio?
11.
What is a
voice over?
12.
Why is it best
to record sound in a room with padded surfaces or in an open space outside
rather than up against a wall?
13.
What are the 3
basics for good audio production?
14.
Why do you
think that a reporter kneels down to interview children about their decorated
bikes?
15.
What is
impedence?
16.
What is wild
sound?
17.
What is
another name for wild sound? (Not in the
video…you should know this from lectures)
18.
Why can’t you
use commercially recorded music on your videos?
19.
To use
commercially recorded music on your video, you need permission from what 3
people?
20.
How do you
make a rain sound effect?
21.
What is an
electric current?
22.
What pushes
electrons through a wire?
23.
What is
compression? Rarefaction?
24.
What does the
diaphragm in a microphone do?
25.
What is
another name for a condenser mic?
26.
How do you
test a mic?
27.
What do you NEVER
do to a mic?
28.
What is one of
the most important considerations in deciding what mic to use?
29.
What kind of
pick-up-pattern does a shotgun mic have?
30.
When is a Pressure
Zone mic (aka Boundary mic) used?
31.
What is the
most important factor in the sound quality acquired by your microphone?
32.
What is
overmodulation?
33.
What does it
make your audio sound like?
34.
What is the
flat response of a microphone?
35.
What is
frequency response?
36.
You have a
committee sitting around a table to discuss a topic. What type of microphone would you use?
37.
What
microphone type is especially effective for picking up sounds from very far
away? (hint: it is used a lot in sports)
38.
Professional
audio cables use a three-pronged connector called what?
39.
The type of microphone
that is most appropriate for voice pickup of a four-member news team (two
anchors, a weathercaster, and a sportscaster) is what?
40.
A shotgun
microphone attached to a long pole is called a ___________ mic.
