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The three-dimensional sound design in Gravity adds depth, reality, and intensity to its two-dimensional image.

For example, one scene in Gravity showed an astronaut spinning around after being hit by an object and the sounds "spun" with the astronaut to add emphasis to the spinning, and added realism and intensity to the event. The spinning sound (assuming there are enough speakers to make the three-dimensional sound possible) made the audience relate to the astronaut and feel as though they were also spinning.

Another example is in the introductory scene: where to astronauts are talking to each other. To the audience, the sound seems very quiet and distant, yet was very easy to tell which direction the sound was coming from. Without even seeing the characters, the audience is able to determine that a female astronaut is speaking to a male astronaut and which side of the frame each of them is on. The silent, distant sounding voices adds to the feeling of distance as we are shown a picture of the Earth from space.