Registration open for the extension course in Sound Aesthetics

The Department of Communication (Decom), at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), promotes the extension course Sound Aesthetics: construction of sound and meaning in audiovisual. The event will take place on the 4th, 5th and 6th of August 2020, starting at 4pm, remotely, taught by professor Luiz Gehlen, through a videoconference channel that will be passed on to participants.
The initiative aims to provide students with an overview of the technical and narrative evolution of sound in cinema and audiovisual, presenting basic notions about the theoretical and conceptual foundations of sound in the construction of specific atmospheres for narrative and non-narrative audiovisual, according to their aesthetic variables. The classes will be through a slide show with cinematographic concepts, with the display and analysis of film fragments.
Registration can be made through SIGAA (you do not need to have a link with UFRN to participate, but residents of Rio Grande do Norte will have priority).
PROGRAMMING
Tuesday, August 4, 2020, 4pm
CLASS 1 – When does the script start to sound? 
Can we also think of sound as an image? A sound approach to writing the script. Particularities of sound narrative: the relationship between sound and image and the cinematographic frame. Diegetic, extradiegetic and metadiegetic sound. Analysis of fragments of audiovisual works and their sound design.
Wednesday, August 5, 2020, 4pm
CLASS 2 – Sound, silence, presences and absences 
Sound as a narrative and dramatic element and resource. Study of music and sound as syntax components of narrative discourse in cinema. The use and its perceptual influence on the material, spatial, temporal aspects of the film. Continuity, anticipation, pause, counterpoint, synchrony and the Mickey Mouse effect and asynchrony. Analysis of fragments of audiovisual works and their sound design.
Thursday, August 6, 2020, 4pm  
CLASS 3 – Technique and sound aesthetics: elements allied to the director 
The elements of the soundtrack will be presented: voice, noises, environments, music and its applications. The different stages within the production structure: direct sound capture, sound editing – dialogues, dubbing, environments, effects, foley, music – and mixing. Physical aspects of sound with a creative contribution to the narrative: reverberation, depth, volume and intensity. Analysis of fragments of audiovisual works and their sound design.