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Audio Media - Definition, Characteristics, Criteria, and Design Audio

Audio media can be analog or digital and includes music, dialogue, sound effects, and silence. When designing audio media, key considerations include mixing and combining multiple sound elements, controlling the pace through editing and transitions between segments, and using stereo imaging to add depth. Selection criteria for appropriate audio media include the purpose, relevance, alignment with objectives, and cost-efficiency.

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Audio Media - Definition, Characteristics, Criteria, and Design Audio

Audio media can be analog or digital and includes music, dialogue, sound effects, and silence. When designing audio media, key considerations include mixing and combining multiple sound elements, controlling the pace through editing and transitions between segments, and using stereo imaging to add depth. Selection criteria for appropriate audio media include the purpose, relevance, alignment with objectives, and cost-efficiency.

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AUDIO MEDIA – Definition, Characteristics, Criteria, and Design

Audio • Music
• Perception of sounds with certain notes Vocal or instrumental sounds
and frequencies combined to produce a piece with
harmony and form
Audio Media
• A means or channel that makes use of • Silence
ceratin sounds which have significant Absence of audio or sound. These
meaning to collect information without are often used to give emphasis or set
using vision the pacing of audio media
• Audio media can be divided into two (2)
types: analog (direct duplication, aims to
replicate the original sound) and digital Design Principles
(recreated sound from segmented parts). • Mixing
Combination, balance, and control of
multiple sound elements
Selection Criteria
• Pace
Selection criteria refer to key aspects Time control, editing, order of events,
that individuals must take note of in order to linera, non-linear, and multi-linear order
determine the best use of text media in a
scenario. Using selection criteria allows text • Transitions
media to be used effectively in disseminating Techniques used to move from one (1)
information. segment to the other. Transitions vary
depending on the relationship of the two
• Purpose and appropriateness to the (2) segments and also the context with
audience which it is being used. These include
• Relevancy to today’s world and society segue, cross-fade (abrupt cut from one
• Alignment to the organization or (1) to the other), V-fade (first sound fades
individual’s objectives and view points completely before the second sound
starts), and fade to black (similar to V-
• Sustainability and cost-efficiency
fade but with silence in between the two
(2) segments.
Design Elements
• Stereo-imaging
• Dialogue Making use of left and right channels
Speech, conversations, voice over, to add depth to the sound
etc. Any sound that makes use of specific
REFERENCES:
intonations to convey messages from
Revano, T. F. (2016). Media and information
one individual to another. literacy for senior high school. Manila:
Mindshapers Co., Inc.
• Sound Effects Teach Together: K-12 Teacher's Resource
Additional sounds outside of music Community. (n.d.). Media and
and dialogue. These are often used to Information Literacy. Retrieved from
teachTogether:
give emphasis and setting.
http://teachtogether.chedk12.com/teachi
ng_guides/view/248

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