Audio Information and Media

1. Audio Information and Media By: Mark Jhon C. Oxillo

2. What is an Audio? sound, especially when recorded, transmitted, or reproduced
3. AUDIO MEDIA media communication that uses audio or recordings to deliver and
transfer information through the means of sound
4. Types of Audio Information
5. Types of Audio Information 1. Radio Broadcast - live or recorded audio sent
through radio waves to reach a wide audience
6. Types of Audio Information 2. Music - vocal or instrumental sounds combined in
such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion
7. Types of Audio Information 3. Sound Recording - recording of an interview,
meeting, or any sound from the environment
8. Types of Audio Information 4. Sound Clips / Effects - any sound artificially
reproduced to create an effect in a dramatic presentation (ex. sound of a storm, or
a door)
9. Types of Audio Information 5. Audio Podcast - a digital audio or video file or
recording, usually part of a themed series, that can be downloaded from a website
to a media player or a computer
10. Ways to Store Audio Information
11. Ways to Store Audio Information: 1. Tape - magnetic tape on which sound can be
recorded
12. Ways to Store Audio Information: 2. CD (Compact Disc) - a plastic-fabricated,
circular medium for recording, storing, and playing back audio, video, and computer
data
13. Ways to Store Audio Information: 3. USB Drive - an external flash drive, small
enough to carry on a key ring, that can be used with any computer that has a USB
Port
14. Ways to Store Audio Information: 4. Memory Card (aka Flash Memory Card or
Storage Card) - is a small storage medium used to store data such as text,
pictures, audio, and video, for use on small, portable, or remote computing
devices.
15. Ways to Store Audio Information: 5. Computer Hard Drive - secondary storage
devices for storing audio file
16. Ways to Store Audio Information: 6. Internet / Cloud - websites or file
repositories for retrieving audio files, and more precisely the files are stored in
some datacenter full of servers that is connected to the Internet
17. Audio File Formats
18. Audio File Formats 1. MP3 (MPEG Audio Layer 3) - a common format for consumer
audio, as well as a standard of digital audio compression for the transfer and
playback of music on most digital audio players.
19. Audio File Formats 2. M4A / AAC (MPEG4 Audio / Advanced Audio Coding) - an
audio coding standard for lossy digital audio compression. Designed to be the
successor of the MP3 format, AAC generally achieves better sound quality than MP3
at similar bit rate
20. Audio File Formats 3. WAV - is a Microsoft audio file format standard for
storing an audio bitstream on PCs. It has become a standard file format for game
sounds, among others
21. Audio File Formats 4. WMA (Windows Media Audio) - is an audio data compression
technology developed by Microsoft and used with Windows Media Player
22. Units of Sound
23. Decibel or simply dB noise of sound measurement
24. Hertz or simply Hz unit of sound frequency
25. Phon unit of subjective loudness
26. Characteristics and Purposes of Sound
27. Characteristics of a Sound: 1. Volume intensity of a sound
28. Characteristics of a Sound: 2. Tone the audible characteristic of a sound
29. Characteristics of a Sound: 3. Pitch - is how high or low a sound is
30. Characteristics of a Sound: 4. Loudness - refers to the magnitude of the sound
heard
31. Purposes of a Sound: Give instruction or information. Provide feedback.
To personalize or customize
32. Elements of Sound Design
33. Elements of Sound Design: 1. Dialogue - speech, conversation, voice-over
34. Elements of Sound Design: 2. Sound Effects any sound other than music or
dialogue
35. Elements of Sound Design: 3. Music vocal or instrumental sounds (or both)
combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of
emotion
36. Principles of Sound Design
37. Principles of Sound Design: 1. Mixing the combination, balance and control of
multiple sound elements
38. Principles of Sound Design: 2. Pace time control, editing, order of events
(linear, non-linear or multi-linear)
39. Principles of Sound Design: 3. Stereo Imaging Using left and right channel
for depth. This refers to the aspect of sound recording and reproduction.
40. Principles of Sound Design: 4. Transition how you get from one segment or
element to another
41. Types of Transitions
42. Types of Transitions: 1. Segue one element stops, the next begins (cut in
film)
43. Types of Transitions: 2. Cross-fade one element fades out, the next fades in,
and they overlap on the way
44. Types of Transitions: 3. V-Fade first element fades to inaudible before the
second elements begins
45. Types of Transitions: 4. Waterfall As first element fades out, the second
element begins at full volume. Better for voice transitions, than for effects
46. Hearing vs. Listening
47. Hearing the act of perceiving sound by the ear
48. Listening requires concentration so that your brain processes meaning from
words and sentences. Listening leads to learning.
49. So are you listening or just hearing?
50. END