Elements and Performance Criteria
- Interpret and confirm sound design briefs
- Participate in preliminary concept meetings with relevant personnel to discuss creative and technical sound requirements of productions
- Continue liaison with relevant personnel until all sound requirements have been confirmed in the context of overall production requirements
- Identify and confirm additional personnel needed to fulfil the sound design brief
- Break down components of sound design briefs
- Identify and document the sound sources specified in the design brief to determine the content, quality and duration of the required sound components
- Determine and where necessary document the creative and resource requirements for each sound component
- Confirm and document the role of personnel required for the process of developing sound design projects
- Experiment with sound components to express ideas
- Cultivate and create an energy and environment that will promote the generation of ideas among team members and provide the motivation and incentive to bring ideas to fruition
- Gather information from a variety of sources and generate, explore and record a range of ideas and options as a creative base for developing the required sound design
- Transform and manipulate the ideas generated and select those ideas that have the most potential for technical and creative development of the required sound design
- Assess creative ideas
- Contemplate and consider the ideas selected from the creative base, reflecting on and evaluating their viability, cost, technical feasibility and suitability to meet the requirements of the design brief
- Continuously evaluate and verify creative ideas for the components of the design brief based on the overall sound design concept
- Design sound elements
- Develop sound design concepts taking into consideration the brief and the ideas generated
- Determine the relevant sound components required to implement the sound design in line with creative and technical requirements
- Establish a clear relationship between the use and integration of sound components and the function, context and objectives of the work to determine the sound design
- As required, hold ongoing discussions with relevant personnel to consider, confirm and incorporate additional or changed production requirements and new ideas to achieve best sound design concept
- Present the sound design in a specification that best conveys the concept to relevant personnel, including those responsible for implementing the design
- Confirm final design concept with relevant personnel to ensure that implementation is consistent with the design and that potential difficulties are addressed
- Evaluate completed sound designs
- Discuss and obtain agreement from relevant personnel on evaluation techniques to evaluate the completed sound design
- Focus the evaluation on whether the sound design meets all aspects of the design brief, and on the viability of the implementation plan
- Obtain detailed information and opinions from legitimate sources and document results for evaluation
- Communicate results of evaluation to relevant personnel and use results to improve future practice