Sound effects

Purpose of sound/effects

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Stimulating reality

The idea of reality can be implied by something small but this can be distinguished easily as for example an opening and closing door on a spaceship is extremely complex as well as a pretend language for the star wars cast of ‘Ewoks’. However, the reality that sounds is so mesmerising that even we know officially that the sound isn’t necessary real we believe it to be true anyway. Guns shot sound in sequences are not naturally long and loud but this is used to create drama, and the realisation of a gun actually being shot from. Overall, many of the singers who sing for film you will find to be unknown singers or those who don’t necessary look the part as they create a sense of fear in a thriller as people don’t know who they are a wonder and question as they do with the activities being presented on screen. 

Adding or creating something that is not there

Sound tracks that amplify or incorporate sound are not easily accessible as ambient noise. However, sound sometimes can be added after or to a film from a library of sound as well as sound effects. Although for more particular and idiosyncratic sounds a production room in which everything available is a basic sound prop. Even the floor can be involved in the process, which can supply a variety of different footsteps. The film rolls of the screen, with the artist matching the sounds that the director wants for the image that can be seen: including horse clopping off to the distance, crowds cheering, echo effects and etc.

To help the director create a mood

To test the ability of the mood. Here is a shot:

Music:

A. Driving, shrill string music leading up to discordant screeches.

B. Slow, stately full-orchestra music, filled with pomp.

C. Five-piece jazz combo playing something with a slow, bluesy beat.

Psycho (1960) sound effects are implied to place you on the edge of your seat from the word go of their most famous scene, the shower scene. The terrifyingly screechy violins in Psycho when used in more expressive and comedian effect when used a background sound in the film High anxiety (1977) when the character stabs another with a newspaper.

Although sound can set the scene, it can also create a mood; it can introduce important elements to a plot or even mislead the audience or confuse them. Because the voice of transvestite Dil in The Crying Game (1992) is masculine, and she in singing the song for the opening titles this create a feminine touch, making audience believe the main character is a woman rather that a man. This is disguised through a full-frontal shot. Sunset Boulevard (1950) is a film that he narrates as he is the films hero, but we don’t learn until the end that the character is narrating from beyond the grave. Narrative can also reflect a film meaning through other ways. For example, documentaries have traditionally been narrated by male voices, implying that history is actually a man dominant idea.

Another idea is cinéma verité: it suggests that ambient sound is most appealing due to its authentic and realistic traits. . If, like the French New Wave filmmakers, you are trying to create a "slice-of-life" film school you allow not so perfect artists fails remain on the soundtrack to contribute to the believability of that movie. The new wave filmmakers were famous, for example, for allowing street noises to remain in the final cut, although it made the dialogue hard to hear. But many tragic uses of ambient sound look at François Truffaut's The 400 Blows (Les Quatre cents coups, France, 1959) or Jean-Luc Godard's Masculine Feminine (Masculin/Feminin, France, 1966).