Your learning experience

SAE has implemented a remote flexible learning option for current and future students. The range of tools developed by SAE will not only allow students to collaborate online but also gain experience in remote working practices widely used within the creative industries.

• Start working with industry-standard microphones, mixing consoles and digital audio work stations in the first trimester.
• Develop high-level skills on industry-standard software, such as Pro Tools, Logic Pro or Ableton Live.
• Master your craft on small and large format consoles and record the music genres you are interested in.
• Get practical experience in live sound, electronic music, audio post-production, and audio for screen.
Work with songwriters, designers, and game developers, filmmakers, and animators.
• Learn the principles of sound and audio technology – crucial knowledge for specialists in the audio industry.
• Build your knowledge and skills on, and have access to, industry-standard equipment and studio spaces.
• Be part of a team that nurtures your talents, and encourages you to reach your learning potential.
• Enjoy the benefits of being SAE trained – our audio students have achieved great success in the creative media industries. SAE graduates are known within the industry for their high-level skills and are in demand.

BACHELOR OF AUDIO

The Audio degree program is broken up into discrete stages, each designed to promote different skills.

Stage I – Foundational Skills Development
In Stage I, students will undertake a number of foundational modules which will give students the essential technical skills and knowledge not only relevant to the chosen discipline area but also give students the skills required to collaborate with other creative media students and professionals in later stages of the Audio course. Students will also undertake deliberate practice and weekly rituals including reflective journaling that will assist students in identifying the skills, knowledge and behaviours required to develop their creative media practice throughout their studies.

Stage 1 has one studio module:

1. Audio Studio 1
Students  undertake two projects (one in the box', one in the recording studio.) Both must deliver to a brief, utilising production skills and researching comparable works to create well-rounded products through iterative processes. For the first project, students will enhance an audio production using sequencing, sampling and synthesis for music composition or sound design project, communicate their musical ideas and apply music production skills to achieve the desired outcome. The second studio project will be a collaborative studio production. Students will apply project management skills to demonstrate effective use of time and resources whilst documenting and reflecting on the production process, identifying areas for improvement and responding to feedback from peers and the facilitator.

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Stage II – Interdisciplinary Projects, Media and Cultural Studies

In Stage II we show students how their Audio work contributes to and interacts with broader culture and media practice through common modules and studio modules. This knowledge will enable students to work with a variety of other disciplines and artists and expand their potential on the global stage. Within Stage II, students will work closely with facilitators to identify key learning outcomes needed to complete modules. Deliberate and reflective practice assist students through their studio modules, playing an active reflection role throughout the learning journey. Student projects within Stage II are reflective of real-world scenarios, containing real-world dilemmas - societal issues that require solutions; authentic audiences -simulating professional practice and constraints- understanding how a range of constraints can impact projects within professional practice.

Students complete a number of real-world projects with students not only in their own discipline but also in all other SAE disciplines. At the end of each studio module, facilitators will arrange exhibitions either internal or public-facing for students to showcase work. 

Stage II has two studio modules

1. Audio Studio 2

In this studio module, students will work collaboratively on audio & music projects, responding to a brief and led by your facilitator. In collaboration with peers, students will work towards established project milestones within a recording studio project with a facilitator acting as the project manager, mentor, and colleague. Students further develop production skills through conceptualising, planning and executing a project, employing recording studio hardware and software.

2. Audio Studio 3

In this studio module, you will work collaboratively on 'sound for picture' projects, responding to a brief and led by your facilitator. In collaboration with your peers, you will work towards established project milestones with your facilitator acting as your project manager, mentor and colleague. This module introduces you to the terminology and workflows used for producing audio for narrative in industries such as film, television, games and multimedia. This module focuses on the creation of the character-related sounds that are developed using location recording techniques, recording and editing of ADR and foley and the mixing of these elements for a professional outcome.

You will be introduced to appropriate session management techniques and project planning as it is important for anyone working within the areas of audio for narrative, to be competent and efficient with the planning, administration and delivery requirements of their designated work. You will primarily focus on the impact of sounds on audience perception in various media. The application of surround sound mixing and immersive production techniques will provide new challenges to suit the needs of modern-day listening environments. Managing budgets, resources and personnel will be discussed and implemented in real-world productions.

You will have the opportunity to collaborate with game design, animation or film producers in cross-platform productions and aim to contextualise sounds in these productions to augment communication with the audience.

Stage III

Stage III of the Bachelor of Audio is designed to prepare students for entry-level professional industry roles and to undertake post-graduate studies. Stage III develops a student’s capacity to work with the collaborative and geographically diverse world of creative media practice.

To prepare students for this, SAE project supervisors and facilitators work with Stage III students to develop sophisticated, collaborative creative media projects which meet the professional standards of the industry. These final projects are done in collaboration with all other SAE disciplines, either on campus or remotely, enabling students to pursue their most ambitious and creative portfolio pieces yet.

To support this, students in Stage III learn advanced discipline-specific skills and knowledge, experience remote, collaborative practice with their peers across the SAE campus network, broaden their skills and knowledge through studying elective modules in other disciplines, or in creative media business and entrepreneurship and finally, gain industry feedback on their transferable skills through the finalisation of SAE’s creative industries Work Integrated Learning Program.

Stage III is NOT included in the Associate Degree.