Before I go a'huntin, does anyone have a good 6 or 7 pagepowerpoint they like for teaching audio 101 to theatre students? Or a 1 page syllabus I can crib from?
Not quite what your looking for, but Shure has an Audio Systems Guide for Theatrical performance as well as several others. Good info on Mic placement and selection. I also would love to see if anyone has something for this. I usually only have time to intro sound systems so I've never put together a presentation.
Something to use as a guide, as I walk about 12 college students through Intro to Theatre Sound, so they can follow along, and -- largely -- so I don't dive off a cliff in detail, as I am wont to do.
Something to use as a guide, as I walk about 12 college students through Intro to Theatre Sound, so they can follow along, and -- largely -- so I don't dive off a cliff in detail, as I am wont to do.
Reinforcement; vocal & orchestral Vs. background and foreground SFX.
Making vocal reinforcement sound like it's coming from the lips of the performer, wherever they're positioned.
Making effects sound like they're emanating from any obvious sources.
Placing speakers within radios, TV's, etcetera.
Using actual door and phone bells rather than recordings.
There's a few hints to get you started.
Toodleoo!
Ron Hebbard
Well, yeah, but much of that is properly the domain of the stagecraft instructor who's subbing me in to talk about driving the equipment; I was insufficiently clear.
Far more than 12 slides, but I've found how Jason Romney packages his lectures at UNCSA to be very accessible.
There are many different topics that can covered. Step 1 is identifying what you want the students to take away from the lecture. Nobody's going to learn how to run hardware in 12 slides, so it's probably better to focus on core concepts and stay agnostic of any particular equipment.
I'm a little late to the party, but here's something I put together for our intro tech class a few years ago. The paperwork samples were use with permission from their creators/friends of mine. Hope it's helpful!
I put this together for a seminar I used to teach at a local HS. Initially the idea was "feed all the techies pizza and give them some exposure", we quickly learned that there's only a small subset who (like I did at that age) thrive on this sort of nutrition. Help yourself, please credit me if you use it.