Leading with Sound is the must-have companion guide to working on video game projects. Focused on the creative, collaborative, philosophical and organizational skills behind game sound and eschewing the technical, this book celebrates the subjects most essential to leading with sound in video game development at any level. Refuting the traditional optics of sound as a service in favour of sound as a pro-active visionary department, , this book examines each of the four food-groups of dialogue, sound design, music and mix, not through the usual technical and production lenses of ‘how’ and ‘when’, but the essential lens of ‘why’ that enables leadership with sound.
Leading with Sound is essential reading for aspiring sound designers, inside and outside of the classroom, as well as experienced professionals in the game industry.
By:
Rob Bridgett
Imprint: CRC Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 1.040kg
ISBN: 9780367535872
ISBN 10: 0367535874
Pages: 234
Publication Date: 19 May 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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General/trade
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Undergraduate
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Part One: Ports of Entry 01 What is this Book About? 02 The Big Four: Understanding the Four Food-groups of Audio (and how they inter-relate) 03 What Drives the Mix of Your Game. 04 Taking a Psychological Approach to Sound Categorization 05 What is a Game Developer? 06 What is Game Audio? 07 What You May be Missing: Vision to Drive Your Tools and Pipelines 08 Communication Essentials: Managing Expectations of Quality (The ‘L’ Scale) 09 Developing Early Audio Visions Part Two: Sound Design 10 Why do we Need Sounds? 11 Working with Sound. 12 Higher Level is Better. 13 What is Causing these Sounds and Where are they Located? 14 Ambiguity and Clarity. 15 Designing for Three Audiences. (Player, Spectator, Creator) 16 Thinking Horizontally, Vertically, and Diagonally about Asset Design. 17 Designing a Moment: Temporality in Interactive Sound Design. 18 Leading with Sound: Spectacle and Immersion. Part Three: Music 19 Why do we Need Music? 20 Music as Creative Crutches: Reaching for Music Too Soon & Too Late. 21 Defining the Sound: Towards an Iconic Music Design 22 The Shape of Emotion: We Can’t Feel Emotion All the Time. 23 Diegetic, Non-Diegetic and Trans-Diegetic Musical Spaces. 24 Non-Diegetic Space in Recorded Music 25 Leading with Music: Music as Spectacle Throughout Production and Post-Release Part Four: Voice 26 Why do we Need Voice? 27 Early Dialogue Development 28 The Sound of Voice: Dialects, Culture and Meaning 29 Casting Philosophies (Auditions, Recording, Iteration) 30 Let’s do it Again 31 Rethinking Dialogue Production: Infinite Alternatives 32 Leading with Voice: Leveraging the Spectacle of Performance Part Five: Mix 33 Why do we Need to Mix? 34 Mix Essentials 35 Philosophy of the Mix: Narrative Dynamics (Pushing, Pulling, Shaping) 36 Some Defining Terminology and Features of Non-Linear Mixing 37 Mix Consistency 38 Building the Mix 39 Planning and Surviving the Major Milestone and Final Mixes. 40 Leading with the Mix: The First and Last Thing You Think About. Part Six: Fade Out 41 The Importance of a Holistic (Four-Food-group) Vision 42 Studio Culture: A Theory of Everything 43 Game Audio Studio Spaces: Architectural Problems in Video Game Sound. 44 Games are for Everyone: Accessibility, Options and Customization in Audio for Gamers. 45 Finding Our Place, Between Vision and Service.
Rob Bridgett is a British-Canadian Audio Director based in Montreal. In 1993 Rob attended Derby University to study cinema and media, and was one of the first to graduate from the ‘Sound Design for the Moving Image’ Master’s degree programme at Bournemouth University in 1999. Having worked as an audio director in the games industry since 2001, Bridgett has become a committed advocate for ‘leading with sound’ and 'sound as design’.
