AUDIO INFORMATION AND MEDIA

**AUDIO**

These are sounds especially when recorded, transmitted or reproduced.

**AUDIO**

* sound effects
* music
* songs
* newscast
* sound recording
* public service announcements

**Radio Broadcast**

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Live or recorded audio sent through radio waves to reach a wide audience

**Music**

Vocal or instrumental sounds combined in such a way as to produced beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion.

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**Sound Recording**

It is a recording of an interview, meeting, or any sound from the environment.

**Sound Clips/Effects**

any sound artificially reproduced to create an effect in a dramatic presentation.

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**Audio Podcast**

A digital audio file or recording, usually part of a theme series, that can be downloaded from a website to a media player.

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**Public Service Announcement**

These are messages disseminated by radios without charge. It aims to raise people’s awareness.

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**Radio Drama**

Similar to a television soap opera, these are purely acoustic programs broadcast on radio.

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**Radio Commercial**

Paid advertisements that intend to promote a service or product.

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**WAYS TO STORE AUDIO INFORMATION**

1. tape
2. compact disc
3. flash drive
4. memory card
5. hard drive
6. cloud storage

**Tape**

It is a magnetic tape which sound can be played or recorded.

**Compact Disc CD**

A circular medium for recording, storing, and playing audio and video.

**Flash Drive**

This can be used to store audio with any computer that has a USB port.

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**Memory Card**

A small storage medium used to store data such as text, images, audio and video

**Hard Drive**

It is a secondary device used to for storing audio file.

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**Cloud Storage**

A website used to store files that is connected to the internet.

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**AUDIO FILE FORMATS**

1. MP3/ MPEG Audio Player3
2. M4A/ AAC ADVANCED AUDIO CODING
3. WAV Waveform Audio File
4. WMA Windows Media Audio


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**MP3/ MPEG Audio Player3**

A standard of digital audio compression for the transfer and playback of music on most digital audio players

**M4A/ AAC ADVANCED AUDIO CODING**

This is designed for the successor of the mp3 format, AAC generally achieves better sound quality than mp3 at similar bit rate

**WAV Waveform Audio File**

This is the standard format for storing audio bitstream on PCs and it has become a standard format for game sounds among others.

**WMA Windows Media Audio**

An audio data compression technology developed by Microsoft and used with Windows media player.

**CHARACTERISTICS OF SOUND**

1. volume
2. tone
3. pitch
4. loudness

**Volume**

It refers to the intensity of a sound.

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**Tone**

the audible characteristic of a sound

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**Pitch**

It deals of how high or low the sound is.

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**Loudness**

Refers to the magnitude of the sound heard.

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**ELEMENTS OF SOUND DESIGN**

1. Dialogue
2. Sound Effects
3. Music

**Dialogue**

These are speeches, conversation, or voice-over

**Sound Effects**

Any sound other than music or dialogue

**Music**

Vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion.

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**PRINCIPLES OF SOUND DESIGN**

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These are the techniques for combining the different elements or objects of a sound.

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**Mixing**

It is the combination, balance and control of multiple sound elements.

**Stereo Imaging**

Using left and right channel for depth.

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**Pace**

This refers to the time control, editing, order or events.

**Transition**

This is how you get from one segment of element to another.

**Hearing**

The act of perceiving sound by the ear and can be done involuntarily.

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**Listening**

Requires concentration so that your brain processes meaning from words.