Hopefully, you all found this week's reading far less painful than last week's. Not every word of every reading will necessarily apply directly to what you will be working on, but I have chosen things that I think will generally add to your knowledge and awaken ideas that will be useful in the process of making work.
This week's reading on audio, along with next week's reading on lighting are about the most technical of the bunch. While jargon and terms may not always be the most interesting way to explore how to make a film, there are important concepts to grasp, as well as descriptions of equipment and how to properly use them that we won't necessarily have time to get into during class.
Of course, I don't expect you to memorize all of this content, just to familiarize yourself with it. And it doesn't hurt to take a few notes for reference later. I'll be interested in hearing from you later in the semester which articles you read that you found useful (hopefully there will be at least a few) and which were a complete waste of time. And I expect that kind of honesty. Really, I can take it. So as the semester moves along, hopefully we will be reading and looking at, as well as discussing things that are relevant to your interests. I expect that if we aren't, you'll be raising those issues in class. The more involved you are, the more you'll get out of the class.
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