Assignments...

IM3307 Audio for Interactive Design
Instructor: Tim O’Donnell
E-mail: todonnell@aii.edu
Assignment for Week 5

Compose a sound sculpture lasting from 3 to 5 minutes. Use all and every sound you can get your hands on, but do not use musical sounds like songs or instrument sounds. Work solely with sounds.


Audio for Interactive Design
Instructor: Tim O’Donnell
E-mail: todonnell@aii.edu
Course Title: IM3307 Audio for Interactive Design
Project I: Building an Audio Log
Project I Brief (Interactive Majors)
GOAL:
This assignment will build experience in the following: searching for audio, creating audio and archiving
audio. The audio files should be related to your research for your client project.
DESCRIPTION:
In the first few weeks of the quarter you are to build a site online that will have archived 20 audio pieces.
1.) 10 must be created by you – from loops, your own instrumentation, recording, mixing, etc.
2.) 10 must be found online or through resource channels – the library, audio disks
3) This should be an open-ended resource, with the above archived files serving as the starting point. Perhaps this project is Volume I of a continuing collection of files.
PRESENTATION:
Exit Portfolio:
You will need to have a sheet documenting the audio files found and created. A CD will also be required
for sampling work.
Format Online:
MP3 format is the required format that is to be delivered online, on CD, and in the dropoff.
Deliver in dropoff:
Deliver a html document linking to all the archived audio you have assembled.

Project I Brief (Game Majors)
GOAL:
This assignment will build experience in the following: searching for audio, creating audio and archiving
audio. The audio files should be related to your research for your final project; which is a game design that focuses on the sound elements.
DESCRIPTION:
In the first few weeks of the quarter you are to build a database that will have archived 40 audio pieces.
1.) 20 must be created by you – from loops, your own instrumentation, recording, mixing, etc.
2.) 20 must be found online or through resource channels – the library, audio disks
3) This should be an open-ended resource, with the above archived files serving as the starting point. Perhaps this project is Volume I of a continuing collection of files.
PRESENTATION:
Exit Portfolio:
You will need to have a sheet documenting the audio files found and created. A CD will also be required
for sampling work.
MP3 format is the required format that is to be delivered both on CD, and in the dropoff.

Blog for Week 5...

Audio Articles and Project Proposals

Design project proposals articles and/or reviews of company design projects and proposals.

Any of the links I have been offering are good choices for blogs. You can also do web searches and looking at periodicals in the library.

Off you go.

Client Needs by David Lowe

Here is a great website with the process of working with clients.

http://www2002.org/CDROM/alternate/678/#App1

Process of Design w/ Client Interaction...

Blog for Week 4...

The Default Weekly Blog Assignment: Audio Articles and Designing for Clients. Any information on designing for clients does not have to be exclusive to audio design.

Also, for those of you who were in class, I want you to blog about the DVD we watched in class- Blade Runner. What can you say about the sound effects and soundtrack (its o.k. to websearch for info on this one as well). A good site is www.brmovie.com

I also wanted to give you the assignment for next week here as well as on the drop off:

IM3307 Audio for Interactive Design
Instructor: Tim O’Donnell
E-mail: todonnell@aii.edu
Assignment for Week 4

In conjunction with audio branding, write up a brief artist's statement for yourself as an artist, and then based on that mood/style/artistic signature, select what would be YOUR theme song or sound (the song/sound that would play every time you walked into a room). Bring a recording of the sound to class. This needs to be an original song/sound for one sample, but also find a second sample, which is a song or sound effect, etc.
The statement and the two audio samples should all fit together analogously.
Bring to class for presentation Week 4.

Off you go.

Blog for Week 3...

For this blog, our default is audio branding. Search the web, periodical and the library for sources on the subject of audio branding and sum up you findings in a blog presentation. It is also a good idea to add links to interesting things you find.

Here is an example:

http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/building-brand-value-through-sound

If someone wants to blog about this article for a start, thats fine. Also beyond our "default" subjects for blogging, other topical articles on audio and interactive media can be explored.

Any links or handouts I give to or send to the class by way of e-mail, this blog or the drop off are also good for blogging.

Don't let my links keep you from searching though.

Off you go.

Sorry so late...

My mistake gang. I forgot to initiate the posting so that the class could respond. If you guys are reading this in time go ahead and post your research. No reflection on you all. We'll get a better start in the second post.

Off you go.