Sound for screen
‘We gestate in sound and are born into sight. Cinema gestated into sight and was born into sound’
Audio Vision (Chion. M 1994 Columbia university press, ny)
How does sound affect image?
Develop understanding of film language
Use protools for foley and mix
“Emotion, story & rhythm – underline or emphasise or counterpoint the emotion you want to elicit from the audience. Choose the sounds that help people to feel the story of what you’re saying. Rhythm keeps pace of scene, sound is a temporal medium.”
How can I tell I miss you Eva tang 2020
Dziga vertov 1931 (pioneer of sound montage in documentary film)
Man with a movie camera
Cinema Verrato (cinema Rea;, real sounds, real people in factories)
Sculpting in time: reflections on the cinema (Tarkovskii, Andrei Arsen’evich;
Audio Vision: sound on screen chion Michel
Paul Davies you were never really here
The conversation 1974 Coppola
Apocalypse now – Coppola
Razorhead – David Lynch
We need to talk about Kevin
Hunger Steve McQueen
Selectivity vs multi layering – minimal vs complex
Walter Murch
Elements that make up a soundtrack
- Non sync/ sync sounds (match the action on screen {something breaks})
- Diegetic/ non-diegetic (off/ on screen) (non diegetic: score, narration) (diegetic: character voice, films universe sound)
- Dialogue sync: dialogue that’s in the camera shot or not (e.g. both sides of a phone call included)
- ADR: Automated dialogue replacement: re recording an actors dialogue in a quiet environment in post production)
- VoiceOver (narration
- Atmospheres (weather, general feelings, environment)
- Sound fx (gun shot, smash)
- Foley: creating/ performing everyday sounds in post production – in sync with what’s happening in the movie (footsteps, how their walking {brisk, nervous, springy, soft) {sync sound}
- Music: score, backing music, theme music, intro/ outro music
- Sound design
‘Creating an illusion of space’
Blackboards
The nine muses
A man escaped Robert bresson