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Sound in Film

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Badly Recorded Sound!

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is that?

Sound in Film

KCRW interview

w ith M

idge Coston on her new film

, M

aking W aves

(interview starts at 25:22)

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ith- m

adeleine-brand

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Elem ents

ofFilm Sound

A.Three Phases

ofM aking

Sound (during

production)

B.D ubbing

(post-production)

Range and

Types ofSound

in Film

A.Four types ofsound

A.D igetic

and N

on--diegetic Sound

B.Autom ated

D ialogue

Replacem ent (AD

R,Looping)

C.D igitalM

anipulation

E .

Foley (3

reasons)

F. Transitions

(4 kinds)

Post-Production Sound

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Foley and

Film

Footsteps (G

uy M addin,9

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Shortdocum entary

on the

Toronto--based Foley

group, show

ing the

process ofcreating

sounds forfilm

s (i.e.foley)

Further Thoughts on

Sound Aesthetics

Atm osphere

and M

ood Eraserhead

(D avid

Lynch 1977)

Com plem

entto Visuals

and M ickeym

ousing King Kong

(Cooper, 1933)

Final Thoughts on

Sound Aesthetics

Sound can

actively shape

how w

e interpretthe

im age

Sound can

guide us

to focus

on elem

ents ofthe

im age

Sound can

affectus on

its ow

n

Sound can

clarify events, contradictthem

, orrenderthem am

biguous

Sound D

esign in

Y Tu M

am a

Tam bien

(Alfonso Cuaron,2002)

C onsider the follow

ing w hile w

atching this scene from the film

:

S ound Q

uality S

ound M ixing

Sound D

esign in

The Blair W itch Project

(M yrick and Sanchez, 1999)

W hat m

akes this scene creepy?

Class Exercise: Sound

D esign

in D racula

(Coppola 1992, O scar for Best Sound Editing)

W e

w illlisten

to this

scene w

ithoutpicture and

w hile

doing so

w rite

dow n

w hatyou

hear.

W hich of those sounds do you expect to be diegetic and w

hich ones non-diegetic?

N extw

e’llw atch

the scene

w ith

picture, so keep

track ofhow

yourinitialexpectations ofthe

scene’s sound

design m

atch up

w ith

how itis

actualized.

D iscussion

D IY

Projectand D

escription Students

have three

different “production” options

for this course:

Screenplays M

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a tted

according to

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pload to

course M

oodle site

Include studentnam

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ID #,and

Com m

231 on

frontpage

Editing Videos

m ustinclude

end credits, including

nam e

ofstudentand Com

m 231

U ploaded

to Youtube or Vim

eo

V ideos

E--m ailthe grader

the link

to your

Vim eo

or Youtube channel thatgoes

directly to

your video

Include in

the e--m

ail full nam e

and ID

num ber

of al students involved in project Put“231

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