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Soundtrack Success: A Digital Storyteller’s Guide to Audio Post-Production

Imagine today’s movies, television programs, Web clips, and video games without sound. They aren’t quite the same, are they? Sound makes a significant contribution to your enjoyment of a visual story.  If you don’t use sound effectively and pay as much attention to it as you do to the images, your productions will suffer.

Whether you make narratives, documentaries, news shows, training videos, podcasts, games, or some other media, sound has a great impact on what people see, believe, and remember. When you dedicate attention to every element that makes up the whole soundtrack – dialogue, sound effects, and music -your story will hold more meaning for the audience, and you’ll deliver your message in a more memorable way.

This book is a soup-to-nuts guide to the entire realm of audio post-production. You will learn how  a better soundtrack is the easiest, fastest, and most effective way to make your production better. Soundtrack Success will show you how to do it. It’s a non-software-specific guide to the entire realm of audio post-production, with particular attention paid to fixing problems, sweetening sound, and pulling together a complete soundtrack. You’ll learn how to use dialogue, voiceover, walla, backgrounds, sound effects, Foley, and music, and you’ll discover how to record, edit, mix, master, and deliver high-quality and high-impact soundtracks. The companion DVD includes video tutorials and examples that further demonstrate the many concepts and techniques described in the book. Get your copy right now.

Here’s what you get in 309 jam-packed pages:

• Crafting the Quintessential Soundtrack
• Audio Aesthetics
• What Is Sound?
• Workflow
• Location Matters
• Microphones
• Building the Location Sound Kit
• CYA Tips
• Hearing Sound
• Making and Recording Sound
• Make Sound Sound Better
• Audio-Post Workflow Tips
• Voiceover
• Recording ADR and Walla
• Editing Dialogue
• Sound Effects
• Foley and Backgrounds
• Sound Effects in Use
• Music
• Mixing
• DVD of examples and tutorials

The book is $44.44 including shipping!

(US/CANDA, $10 additional shipping for international orders)

About the Author

Jeffrey P. Fisher has built a 25-year career providing music, sound, writing, video, training, and media production and post-production services for corporate, cable, and commercial clients, including indie films. Fisher is the author of 11 books, and he teaches audio and video production and post-production at College of DuPage and DePaul University.