- Sound - Vibrations that travel through certain mediums and can be heard when reaching the ear
- Soundscape - A piece of music considered by its component sounds
- Sound Design - Manipulating or generating audio elements
- Suspending Disbelief - The process of getting someone to believe the unbelievable
The importance of sound is explicit when you watch an opening sequence without the music and sound effects that support it - such as 'The Taking of Pelham 123".
Without sound, the title sequence feels a lot longer than it actually is - it's boring and for the audience, even feels awkward. However, if you take it off mute, it's interesting, entertaining, and feels a lot faster in terms of pace.This shows that sound makes films more enjoyable and engaging the audience; it's a lot easier to get into the feel on the movie.
Sound and Genre
Sound actually helps us easily identify the genre of the movie, without even needing images. Some of these sections of music here help to demonstrate that:
This one is clearly a western, due to the country music, horse tapping sounds, and gunshots.
This sound makes it obvious we're dealing with a Sci-Fi movie, due to the noise that can only be described as 'Spacey'
Clip 3 is obviously an action movie, due to the exciting music and sound effects of cars speeding past.
This final clip is clearly a 'Chick Flick' due to the girly, light hearted music - it's actually from the film Legally Blonde, which I haven't seem, obviously.
Creating Soundscapes - Terminology
Although you may be of the opinion that sound is pretty simple, but to be able to create a soundscape for a film, knowledge of the terminology is needed.
- Wild Track - An audio recording intended to be synchronised with film or video but recorded separately
- Ambient Sound - The background sounds which are present in a scene or location
- Diegetic Sound - Sound whose source is visible on the screen or whose source is implied to be present by the action of the film: voices of characters. sounds made by objects in the story
- Non-Diegetic sound - Sound whose source is neither visible on the screen nor has been implied to be present in the action: Narrator's commentary, Sound effects which is added for the dramatic effect, Mood music
- Score - Orchestrate or arrange (a piece of music), typically for a specified instrument or instruments
- Song - A short poem or other set of words set to music or meant to be sung
- Voiceover - A piece of narration in a film or broadcast, not accompanied by an image of the speaker
- Dialogue - A conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or film
- Dubbing - To alter the soundtrack of (an old recording, film, etc) (transitive) to substitute for the soundtrack of (a film) a new soundtrack, especially in a different language
- Foley - Relating to or concerned with the addition of recorded sound effects after the shooting of a film
- Synchronous -Synchronous sound includes all noises whose origins can be seen on-screen: in a "two-shot" conversation between two lovers you simultaneously see their lips flapping and hear the words they speak
- Asynchronous - Asynchronous sounds match the action being performed however is not precisely synchronised with the action. Here is an example of asynchronous sound. The sound being heard is of a train however what can be seen is a women screaming
- Sound Bridge - transitions in the continuity editing style, one that stresses the connection between both scenes since their mood (suggested by the music) is still the same
- Sound Motif - A sound effect or combination of sound effects that are associated with a particular character, setting, situation or idea through the film: The sound motifs condition the audience emotionally for the intervention, arrival, or actions of a particular character
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