Designed for teachers and performing arts directors who want to up their game in re-creating the live-theatre experience with more interactive potential. As a teacher in pursuit of distinguishing the difference between drama and performing arts courses under the restrictions of a pandemic, my goal is give my performing arts students the chance to learn from their remote audience in real time as they perform. There is so much more than applause that an audience gives, and it’s high time that performing arts teachers bring that awareness and training to their students.

When “teaching” students to ensure that their sound in their video recordings are good-quality, this essential consideration often goes without being taught, considered, or even mentioned. Students often come back to the class with a video no one understands on two levels. One is that they have not been taught visual story-telling, so the images are either flat and static, or do nothing to illustrate what is behind the action. The other is that the sound is full of noise and unwanted or unintended sound that was “tuned out” during recording.

This video steps beyond that and delves into dealing with a potential feedback loop from a remote audience. The solution is a mix-minus audio set-up; simple in practice, but more difficult to understand.

Mixing Sound