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Sound

Sound. The role of sound. Sound rarely draws a great deal of attention from audience members even though it is crucial to our experience of televisual media It just ‘is’ However, it is crucial to the realism, emotional impact, and meaning of the narrative. Sound and the diegesis.

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Sound

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  1. Sound

  2. The role of sound • Sound rarely draws a great deal of attention from audience members even though it is crucial to our experience of televisual media • It just ‘is’ • However, it is crucial to the realism, emotional impact, and meaning of the narrative

  3. Sound and the diegesis • Diegetic sound is all audio that is part of the story—at least one character is able to hear it • Objective: available to all characters • Subjective: internal to a few or only one character • Nondiegetic sound is the sound that the audience can hear but the characters cannot • Orchestration • Voice-over from heterodiegetic narrator

  4. Functions of sound: Emotion • Perhaps the most compelling impact of sound is its role in generating emotion • Voice • Music • Tempo/Timbre/Volume • Sound effects

  5. Radio commercials • http://www.babble-on-recording.com/samples.html • http://www.clioawards.com/winners/ • http://www.radiomercuryawards.com/rma2009/audiolibrary.cfm

  6. Functions of sound: Realism • Though we rarely pay much attention, we are used to a vast array of sounds in our environment • Their absence or inappropriateness will lessen the feeling of realism generated by a film, TV show, or even videogame • Offscreen sounds and noises, etc. provide an imaginary environment appropriate to certain characters, actions, etc. • Sells the setting • Provides information unavailable visually

  7. The co-occurrence of sounds and visual action hides the construction of both from view • Sounds sell visual effects

  8. Sound effects • Star Wars • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0WJ-8B6aUM • Lightsabre (Ben Burtt) • Sounds • Wall-E (Ben Burtt) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ghwbcgby6E&feature=related

  9. Functions of sound: Providing meaning • The meaning of certain actions or phenomena is unclear without sound • Music, etc. that has prior meaning may ‘explain’ onscreen action • 2001: A Space Odyssey • http://www.youtube.com/user/hetfield1984#p/u • The juxtaposition of incompatible sound and video may indicate irony, satire, etc. • Dr. Strangelove

  10. Functions of sound: Entertainment • Sound may be the main source of enjoyment • Video complements the sound rather than vice versa • Musicals • Music videos

  11. Functions of sound: Continuity • Sound effects, narration, dialogue, orchestration carry over from shot to shot or even scene to scene • The musical score or signature sounds may be reintroduced from episode to episode or throughout a series of independent but linked episodes

  12. Production Sound • Recorded during production • Mostly dialogue • Boom microphone v. Lavalier v. close-miking • Especially difficult on location (ambient sounds)

  13. Megan Silverstein: http://www.domgee.com/findresume.html

  14. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y15eNbHg8Uc • Production Sound Designer

  15. Postproduction sound • Dubbing • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSm9DDxQv8E&feature=related • Automatic Dialogue Replacement (ADR) or ‘looping’ • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwZwTP52aIc&feature=related • Sound Effects • Gathering sounds • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCpFtGCAgfI • Prerecorded/libraries • Foley process • Specially constructed

  16. Postproduction sound • Music • Orchestration • Popular music • Brings important meaning/allusions with it

  17. Mixing and editing • Postproduction mixing • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C1rNqdblMs&feature=related

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