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Adobe Creative Cloud Across the Curriculum: A Guide for Students and TeachersMain MenuIntroduction: What Do You Want to Create Today?Adobe Creative Cloud Across the CurriculumAdobe Creative Cloud: What Is It? How Does It Work?Adobe Creative Cloud Across the CurriculumImages: Photographs, Illustrations, GraphicsAdobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Spark PostPrint: Magazines, Books, Documents, ResumesAdobe InDesign, AcrobatAudiovisual: Video, Film, AnimationAdobe Premiere Pro, Audition, After Effects, Premiere Clip, and Spark VideoSound: Podcast, Soundtrack, Voice-over, MusicAdobe Audition, Premiere ProWebs: Website, Mobile App, ebookAdobe Muse, Dreamweaver, Spark Page, XD, InDesignPresentation: Speech, Lecture, Talk, PitchAdobe Spark Page, InDesignPortfolio: Showcase, Dossier, CollectionAdobe Portfolio and BehanceTodd Taylor040585dacbb7e1caa116d4fd9bc26ee5feb34450
8B: The Presentation Application Interface and the DNA of Speeches
12017-08-30T01:24:28-07:00Todd Taylor040585dacbb7e1caa116d4fd9bc26ee5feb344502016438B: The Presentation Application Interface and the DNA of Speechesplain2017-08-30T01:28:52-07:00Todd Taylor040585dacbb7e1caa116d4fd9bc26ee5feb34450Speeches have made a huge impact on civilization because, as a technology, they’ve worked so well. They are particularly effective and engaging because they are leveraged on human connection -- because they are most typically face-to-face -- the speaker's human (inter)face engaging with the audience's human (inter)faces.
Print text often provides more dense and specific information than sound – a written chapter is easier to comprehend in detail than a spoken lecture. Digital sound can also provide a virtual sense of closeness and immediacy, even when you are actually at a distance: phone calls can make it feel like the person is in the room, and concert recordings approximate listening to a live band. Another distinct advantage of digital sound is that it can be precisely edited, controlled, and manipulated in ways that we often do not perceive when listening. Sounds that were actually recorded separately can be mixed together to seem like they were combined live. A variety of voices, speeches, and interviews can be edited together in something like a “radio essay.”
If the advantages of recording, editing, and mixing described in the previous paragraph seem like they might work for your project – they seem like they might solve problems or energize your work – then maybe you should make a recording, podcast, soundtrack, or soundscape. If, however, you need to share highly detailed information, then perhaps you should do so primarily in print. Or, if the ideas you need to convey are mostly visual, then maybe you should make an image instead of a sound. Of course, perhaps it’s most effect to combine image, language, music, sound, and speech in the form of a movie? But, if you want to focus specifically on sound production and editing, then Adobe Audition CC is a professional grade tool for doing so. You can also use Adobe Premier Pro CC to make sounds, but, since that application is really for making video, Audition is probably the better choice.
