COMM 374Audio Production
Theory and practice in studio recording and broadcasting techniques, including continuity/news writing, control room operation and audio production. COMM 374 Audio Communication (3) Studio techniques for the production of audio essays, musical portraits, news, and on-air editorials and radio drama are explored through various writing and control room exercises. Students learn how to make interesting, marketable audio material suitable for both broadcast and non-broadcast markets. This course also covers the aesthetic limitations of each format and the marketing potential in the current broadcast and narrowcast markets. The cultural genesis and brief history of each medium and format provides the context for the producer, as will readings covering the ethical and legal constraints particular to each production medium.
Prerequisites
From the catalog: “COMM 180 or COMM 251 or COMM 100 or permission of program”
Where it sits in degree plans
One of the options in (4)
- Communications, B.A. (Altoona)
- Communications, B.A. (Capital)
- Media Production, Minor
- Telecommunications and Media Industries, B.A.