Talk:Sound design

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Radical article idea

So I have a radical idea, it came from seeing the merge tag at the top of the film section. Maybe we should make sound design be a basic articles about sound design and then create seperate sound design (film) and sound design (theatre) articles? I may be completly misunderstanding it, but aren't theater sound and film sound two completely different theories? If I'm wrong I'm wrong, but I think this could benifit both the stagecraft project and the filmmaking project as we won't be fighting over ideas and concepts. Anyone else have any thoughts? --Lekogm 00:42, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Sounds logical to me... Charlie Richmond 20:54, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Sound design in both film and theatre have the same basic premise. You're interpreting a written piece of work and emphasing portions of that work. This gives the audience a heightened view of the work. In both film and theatre, the sound acts to reveal a setting; emphasis a mood; focus the audience to a specific location or to enhance the sound on stage/in the film. The qualities of sound, role of the designers and recording/finding/building effeccts are basically the same. The differences lie in the presentation of the final design and the amount of sound that goes into it. Film needs to have sound for everything that happens on screen, theatre has it's own atmosphere, it just uses enhancements. I think that the basic sound design should have it's own page, then sub catagories for film and theatre. The film people could help contribute to the section. The stuff that doesn't fit both can go in a sub-catagory. I just think that sound in both fields are close enough that we will be repeating a lot of information. Humhead 01:22, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

there does seem to be an issue here. I think the difference between sound design - in the context of crafting sound using recording and synthesis techniques - and the design of sound reinforcement systems (including the incorporation of architectural acoustics) should be much clearer. Also, there is significant overlap between the sound design techniques used for film and those used in certain types of sound art such as music concrete, various acousmatic art practices, and electroacoustic music; so potentially this means a third article will be required. Why not have one main sound design article which gives an overview of the three (four, if computer games is included) major forms and then have film and theater specific articles that dwell on issues specific to each variation? to There appears to be nothing in this article regarding practical sound design techniques or details relating to the how and why of it all. Semitransgenic (talk) 21:25, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

I think that idea has merit. Binksternet (talk) 23:51, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

References?

So... I contributed a large amount to this article based on my own personal involvement with this craft and contributed based on my own knowledge. How does one reference that? Charlie Richmond (talk) 05:34, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

As far as I can tell, I think we need to find external references to back up the contributions you've made. The idea is that any other reader of the article will be able to verify any of the claims in it for themselves. I'm relying here on the guideline No original research under the section No original research#Citing_oneself. Sounds tricky though, under the circumstances. Can you think of any good references we could use for any of the material? --Spoonriver (talk) 11:25, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Without wanting to devalue the insights provided by Mr Richmond, this article needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. The banners may seem like an overkill, but all are valid issues which need to be attended to if the article is to improve, and it saves blabbing on about it here. A rewrite is needed, to remove unsupported POV entries. Some of the verbiage just does not seem relevant to the topic. Semitransgenic (talk) 21:33, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Good luck with the independent verification! In the meantime I'll help wherever I can and keep watching this space plus you can call me Charlie ;-) Charlie Richmond (talk) 07:01, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

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