ABSTRACT
The ingredients of the previous chapter-music and talent-are understood by the audience only after they have been filtered through microphone, camera, or computer rendering. These technical instruments are the shapers of the audio/visual stage. What the computer creates, the camera sees and the microphone hears determines the width, height, and depth of the electronic proscenium (active stage area). As Professor Nikos Metallinos explains, “The artistic synthesis of moving images depends on four major factors. In the case of film and television media [and their broadband extension] such factors are (a) light and color, (b) framing or staging, (c) audio setting and sound selection, and (d) editing or sequencing of the visual and auditory elements.”1 This chapter examines these productional properties in detail, beginning with the subject of sound.
