Sound Design - Department of Roopkala Kendro

About Sound Design

Sound design is stream where students are getting trained to deal with sound as art form to be applied in various audio & audio-visual related artistic domain. They become aware of the science of sound and become capable to change the character of sound after recording, utilizing various tools available to shape sound be used for various purposes.

In Sound Design course students are taught the aesthetics and technology of sound recording and sound design appropriate for different media of communication like Television, Film, radio, Live shows, OTT platforms etc. It offers extensive hands on training and practice of recording sound in various formats. Students get the opportunity to learn the crafts of music recording, dubbing, track laying for fiction and non-fiction films, as well as designing of sound tracks for each format.

The students are provided inputs utilizing industry standard software and other related equipment. It is important to note that our main objective is to train students to use different kinds of sound based on their creative ideas for which they may use any software available, hence the focus is always given on students capacity building for becoming ‘creative’ in terms of sound design and the software is employed to achieve this purpose.

Training at Sound Design Department is mainly carried out in two forms:-

Regular theory and practical classes, taken by Faculty Members,
Workshop, carried out by industry professionals.

On successful completion of this course students can seek employment in television and film industry, Music Industry. Moreover, they also become capable for getting employed in FM Radio stations.

In the film industry successful students may be employed as:

Location sound recording engineer: where they will record sound at the shooting location.
Studio Engineer: where their basic area of work will be recording music, recording dialogues (dubbing), creation of effects etc.

In the television industry students will find themselves as:

Location sound recording engineer
In house engineers of different channels

At Roopkala Kendro, we take care to ensure that the academic training provided is at a standard which will make the industry regard students as potential professionals in this field.

Some of our recent Guest Faculties include:

Subhadeep Sengupta
Partha Pratim Barman
Subhasish Mukherjee
Bijwajit Samaddar
Sukanta Majumder
Shantajit Chatterjee
Indradeep Dasgupta

Student Practising in Mixing Studio

Course Objective

The Sound Design Department aims to provide extensive theoretical and practical training in art, science and technology related to sound for audio only and visual media. The department aims to nurture students to convert them into creative, technically efficient and aesthetically conscious artists of sound, who can make meaningful contribution to film, television and digital media.

The department is committed to:

Make the students understand that the nuances of sound as a medium of communication (which can’t be seen) as well as an important component of meaningful story telling not only by the use of spoken words or music but also with other sounds which exists in the world but we never cared that they can cater important role in artistic & emotional communication.
Train students with intensive understanding of the, techniques and technologies of sound tools in order to understand the aesthetics of sound design and how to achieve it for different mediums like music and cinema.
Encourage students to understand the technology and take situation and content wise innovative approach for recording, editing, mixing and sound design to enhance the quality and aesthetic value of cinema.
Provide training on hands with industry standard, exploiting modern software and equipment.

Vision of the Sound Design Department.

The department desires to turn student into a hard core professional who will not only be skilled technicians but also be sensitive artists who are able to use sound as a powerful tool in audio visual story telling.

Course Duration

2 Years Divided into 4 Semesters.

Total No. of Seats

Eligibility Criteria

Graduation or Equivalent.
Physics as a subject in Higher Secondary or equivalent is preferred.

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Course Facilities

As Sound Design Department is committed to train and impart most advanced knowledge regarding aesthetics of sound recording and designing with at the most modern Industry standard technology, the department supports the students with following facilities.

Two fully equipped state of the art sound recording and mixing theatre.
Different kind of microphones to carry out experiment with recording techniques.
Various Portable multitrack recorders with the facilities to carry out proper location recording for films and documentaries.
Digital Audio Workstations equipped with most modern software.
Facilities to analyses films distributed in 5.1 or 7.1 multitrack stereo formats.
Facilities to mix Films and Music to be produced in most modern distribution formats.