Program: MASSIVE (Music Applied to Stage, Screen and Interactive Visual Environments)
Course Name: Genres & Scores for Short Form Visual Media
This course surveys the use of music in very short form media such as Television Bumpers, Studio IDs and Logos, TV Commercials and very short films (i.e. five minutes or less.) Concepts studied include: characteristics of various musical/cinematic genres such as Action, Suspense, Emotional and Ethnic; the use of the Temp Score to explore stylistic options; the Spotting Session as a form of artistic communication between composer and director.
Course Name: Genres & Scores for Long Form Visual Media
This course extends the preceding survey of the use of music in media to longer forms such TV Drama and Feature length Films. Concepts covered (with composition assignments) include: musical story-telling; music as emphasis of visual motion; music used for expression of character emotion; music used to represent location; music demarcating narrative structure.
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Program: Arts and Culture
Course Name: The Functions of Film Music
This course, for non-specialist students who are interested in both cinema and music, will cover the most important of music's many functions in traditional narrative film-making. Building on concepts first stated in Sofia Lissa's 1959 Aesthetic of Film Music, the course surveys the following musical/cinematic functions using historical and modern examples from cinema, opera and other narrative musical forms: Emphasis of Movement; Representation of Nature; Representation of Location; Expression of Character Emotion; Expression of Audience Emotion; music as Directorial Commentary; Enhancement of Narrative Structure.
Program: BA Animation
Course Name: Animation Senior Film Project
In this capstone course, students create and produce a professional, independent animated film that visually reflects their own style and artistic vision. Students work in a thesis-oriented environment that focuses on independent learning to inform their production, under the guidance of an advisor and mentoring team. This learning is supplemented with a master lecture series that includes guest speakers from the industry who are experts in the craft, and complemented by an offering of unique workshops. Specific topics include Technical Direction, Scene Analysis, Audio Components (Audio Post, Foley Recording, Dialogue Re-Recording, Interlock and Final Mix), CG Applications (Finals Sets, Textural Maps, Rendering) and DVD Encoding. In addition, students finalize their personal professional portfolio (inclusive of resume, artist statement, selected works and demo reel) for industry exhibition and presentation.
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Program: BA Animation
Course Name: Digital Tools: Music, Dialogue and Sound Effects
This course is designed to introduce students to theory and practical use of sound for picture with a particular concentration on animated film. Topics include a detailed background of the technology and aesthetics of sound in current industry practice and throughout the history of motion pictures. Through interactive lecture and discussion, the physical theory of sound and issues of digital representations of audio are examined. Through studio work, students focus on the use of industry standard audio recording, editing and processing software in order to create a finished soundtrack for an animated film.
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Course Name: Digital Tools: Introduction to Digital Tools
Program: BA Animation
Students learn to transform paper artwork, generated in related art classes, into the digital realm. Specifically, a digital workflow is used to take rough animation and layouts through a suite of applications to transform them into a finished, coloured scene. Students acquire an understanding of resolution and standards to maximize quality in this digital workflow.
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Course Name: Music: Structure & Culture
Program: Arts and Culture
This course is designed to provide non-specialist students with a cultural and historical survey of music with an emphasis on its presentation in animated film. Cultural, social & political issues are explored through an examination of musical styles in various cultures and contexts. Topics covered include: Music as a political force in 19th Century European Nationalism; Musical Mathematics in the Esoteric tradition; non-western musical traditions such as those of Bali and South India; Opera and its connection to the animated musical film.
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Program: Media Arts
Course Name: Music in Media
This course provides a cultural, historical and geographical overview of music with an emphasis on its role in modern media such as film, television and the internet. The appreciation of music is developed through an understanding of its basic elements - rhythm, melody, harmony and instrumentation - extended by the examination of musical styles in various historical and geographical cultures. The knowledge and skills appropriate to the selection, editing and synchronization of music with picture will also be developed.--------------------------------------------------------------
Program: Media Arts
Course Name: Audio Production Concepts
This course provides an introduction to audio. It deals with the technology of audio, audio concepts, aesthetics and introductory techniques. The technology component addresses basic understanding of the operation of equipment and focuses on microphones, recorders, and digital audio workstations. Audio concepts deals with the basic physics and perception of sound, simple acoustics, and audio systems and signal flow. The emphasis is placed on operational understanding of audio. Audio aesthetics will develop basic listening skills, concepts and vocabulary in music, acoustics and audio that is of relevance to the media sound designer. Production techniques are introduced with examples and workshops. Emphasis is placed on the design of sound through recording and editing. Class discussion of concepts in these areas will centre on recorded examples, as well as student's work in progress and finished assignments.--------------------------------------------------------------
Program: ADVANCED TELEVISION & FILM
Course Name: Pre-Production Sound Design
Exercises focus on the creative aspect of sound design appropriate to the pre-production, scripting and early production stages of project development. Specific topics include: script marking of sound highlights; analyzing a script for fundamental tension; drawing a soundtrack graph; the function and procedure of the sound spotting session; and selecting music and creating a temp music score. Several film soundtracks are studied from the point of view of audio story-telling, including IMAX Blue Planet, 2001:A Space Odyssey, and Snatch. Students leave the module with a clear concept of the audio issues relating to their particular projects, including graphic and verbal analyses of their project's sound design.--------------------------------------------------------------
Program: ADVANCED TELEVISION & FILM
Course Name: Post-Production Sound Design
Exercises focus on the creative aspect of sound design appropriate to the post-production, mixing and mastering stages of project development. Specific topics include: the function and procedure of the sound spotting session; selecting music and creating a temp music score; stem mixing practice; premix and final mix practice; mixing formats. Several film soundtracks are studied from the point of view of mixing practice, including IMAX Space Station. Students leave the module with a clear concept of the audio issues relating to their particular projects, including a complete detailed soundscript.--------------------------------------------------------------
Program: UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MISSISSAUGA, COMMUNICATIONS, CULTURE & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Course Name: Advanced Audio
This course explores how to design and produce a soundtrack for film or television. The foundations of technical theory and nomenclature are provided, as well as aesthetic guidelines. Practical exercises explore: voice recording, use of library sound effects, creative sound design, sound editing and processing technology and soundtrack mixing.--------------------------------------------------------------
Program: University of Toronto, Faculty of Music
Course: Advanced Cinematic Orchestration
In this course students learn advanced handling of the recording orchestra, including the craft of "mocking up" an orchestra performance using synthesizers and samplers.
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