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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Interpret and confirm sound design brief
   • Participate in concept meetings with relevant people to discuss and determine creative and technical sound requirements for a production
   • Confirm sound requirements meet the overall production requirements in liaison with relevant people
   • Identify and confirm any additional sound design team members required to fulfil the brief
2. Break down components of sound design brief
   • Identify types of sounds required, and determine content, quality and duration of each sound component
   • Determine and document resource and creative requirements for each sound component
   • Document and confirm roles of sound design team members
3. Experiment with sound components to express ideas
   • Encourage and motivate sound design team members to generate ideas
   • Generate, explore and record a range of ideas and options to serve as a creative base for developing the required sound design
   • Select ideas with the most potential for technical and creative development of the required sound design
4. Assess creative ideas
   • Evaluate selected ideas in terms of their viability, cost, technical feasibility and suitability to meet requirements of sound design brief
   • Select final ideas for the components of the sound design, based on what is needed to meet the overall requirements of the brief
5. Design sound elements
   • Develop sound design concept, taking into consideration the brief and the ideas generated by the sound design team
   • Determine sound components required to implement sound design in line with creative and technical requirements
   • Establish clear relationship between sound components and objectives of sound design
   • Liaise with relevant people to incorporate additional requirements and ideas to achieve best sound design
   • Present sound design in required format to convey design concept
   • Confirm final sound design concept is consistent with brief and that potential difficulties are addressed
6. Evaluate final sound design
   • Use appropriate techniques to evaluate whether final sound design meets the requirements of the sound design brief
   • Seek feedback and opinions from relevant people, and document results of evaluation
   • Communicate results of evaluation to relevant people, and use results to improve future practice

Performance Evidence

Evidence of the ability to:

in collaboration with others, develop at least three designs that combine a mix of sound components in response to sound design briefs

experiment, assess and select from the creative ideas of self and others

document final evaluation of sound designs.

Note: If a specific volume or frequency is not stated, then evidence must be provided at least once.

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Knowledge Evidence

To complete the unit requirements safely and effectively, the individual must:

describe the production requirements that may impact on sound designs

describe the information that is typically found in sound design briefs

explain the formats that could be used to present design concepts

describe techniques for developing ideas and enhancing innovation

describe techniques for evaluating sound designs

explain the issues and challenges that typically arise when developing sound designs, and how to address them.

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