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Early sound
Technological clumsiness
Ren Clair, 32
Single track sound
Post-synchronization
Dubbing
Sound editing
Sound mixing
Mickey Mousing
Musical themes to cue emotions for the audience Dialogue or sound overlaps to compress time
Sound editing
J-cuts using the visual from the shot and the sound from the reverse shot
Film tracks
Audio track 1: dialogue Audio track 2: dialogue Audio track 3: extra dialogue and narration Audio track 4: music
1970s
Multi-track recording
Dolby sound
Perceptual properties fidelity to the source Loudness - volume Pitch high or low Timbre tone quality
Walter Murch
06 Awarded a Doctorate of Letters at Emily Carr U.
Sound
Sound perspective - as you get closer the sound gets louder Simultaneous sound happening the same time as the image
Rhythm
Usually produced by music but can be footsteps, gunfire, dialogue
Mickey Mousing
Sergio Leone, 67
Sound Editors Vittorio de Sisti
Elio Pacella
Dialogue
Text and subtext Dialogue vs voice
Volume
Pitch
Speech characteristics
Accent and dialect Diction
Vocal tics
Joanna Quinn
filmmography
Body Beautiful Britannia
Film sound
An expressive element
An aesthetic experience
Internally focalised narration: information is given through the p.o.v. of a character Externally focalised narration: narrat0r says less than a character knows
With your astonishing example and your more conventional example, discuss our topics in your analysis:
1. Ideology
2. Image
3. Narrative structure 4. Genre 5. Production 6. Editing
7. Sound
In addition
Text pages 137-165 Camera
Lighting
Composition Colour Production design Acting styles