Essays on Sound Design

It was a pleasure reading this article. The concepts were a welcome review of sound’s role in filmmaking. ‘Designing a Movie For Sound’ by Randy Thom was thorough.. Normally, in the world of film today, audiences expect ‘nice’ songs to accompany story. These musical sound-bytes, designed by movie-makers, pander to their wishes, thus – contributing nothing of a shared, integrated structure to the overall mise-en-scene of the film. In stunning contrast, Thom discussed the legendary, extraordinary sound design of the movie, Apocalypse Now, describing how Coppola imbued the film into the sound, giving the characters “the opportunity to listen ...

Film Studies

Influence of Sound on Taxi Driver Sound is one the most underrated influences on development of character, narrative, and aspects of the movie genre. One such movie that had great sound design was the movie Taxi Driver that came out in 1976. The most influential parts of the movie that include sound are the dialogue, sound effects, and music. All three of these categories move the development and narrative of the movie forward, portraying changes in character as well as storyline. For Taxi Driver sound played a major part in the movie. Using these three categories of sound, this ...

The Shirt – Shelly Niro

The Shirt by Shelly Niro is a great example of work, in which we see how all its elements work together to create the right impression. Such productive element as a sound design works here to allow us to immerse ourselves in the culture of the Native Americans. Thus, the music used in the film is as important as settings, costumes and acting. Sound design in The Shirt is meant to support the message of the film. It does not work separately from other elements, but is used to help in telling the story and creating the images in the ...

Business

Sound in the television or film is for the purpose of supporting the story of the documentary, television program, narrative, or a film. However, sound can be so effective that it may explain the entire story directly, and it can also be used indirectly in order to enhance effects of movie’s story. It has been argued that television sound is different to film sound. This is because of the fact that there are different perceptual methods and mechanisms for the picture and sound in the television and film; the sound may, however, be integrated by the spectators or the ...

[Author’s Name] With the arrival of cinema as an artistic medium, a bunch of movements arose to portray emotions and themes through different techniques in filmmaking. One of the most important movements of the 1920’s is the surrealism movement. The Surrealism movement is described as a cultural movement that began in the early 1920’s. The reason behind the movement was to “resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality” (Barnes, 2001). Before the movement included film, it was a medium of art that mostly contained illogical, wild, and strange creatures in paintings. Once film and cinema was ...

In the context of this film, a surrealistic body horror is displayed which was directed and written by David Lynch, an American filmmaker. The story portrayed in this movie is all about Henry Spencer who was left taking care of his own grossly deformed child in a landscape which was desolate. Spencer is shown experiencing hallucinations and dream of his lady and child in the radiator. The surrealistic imagery as well as sexual undercurrents is clearly portrayed in this film making them the main styles used in elaboration of the intended message. The main themes and purpose of the film therefore ...

The Asian Horror films that we have viewed for the previous ten weeks were impressive to analyze and view. Last term, I had the experience of attending the lecture of a Kurosawa Kiyoshi film; this term is much different. In contrast to the last term, this term included diverse horror films from different countries in Asia, and last term was Japanese films only. Each film during this term has their own characteristic including directing style, unique way of thrilling the audience, and the way in which the message and theme of each film is delivered. Comparing the genres of Asian ...

Ever since the innovation of television as a means to bring motion picture content to homes, the use of sound in television has been markedly different from that of film. "The role that sound plays in TV is extremely importantit engages the look and the glance rather than the gaze, and thus has a different relation to voyeurism from cinema's" (Ellis 128). In effect, television has a much greater emphasis on sound than cinema does, because the ability to refocus attention from a television show (as opposed to film, where one is confined in a dark theater watching only that) means that more of ...

In the 1975horror movie Jaws, sound and music are just as much characters in the film as the titular shark; always in the background, present to convey the tension and sense of horror that the human characters feel as they defend the beaches of Amity Island from a giant killer shark. Because of the director's artistic choice to deliberately obscure the shark from view for most of the movie, much of the work is done by the sound and music (the score composed by John Williams). Many sound effects in particular contribute to a sense of reality, and a feeling of ...

Japanese horror films through the years had made astounding contribution to the movie industry and to the horror genre in particular. One of the notable directors of great Japanese horror flicks is Kurosawa Kiyoshi who is often compared to Andrei Tarkovsky and Stanley Kubrick in terms of directing style and influence. Most of his films are focused on ho a general society affects an individual and how the society also reacts to adverse irrational and disintegrated social mechanisms. Japanese horror movies are not typical to the usual western made fright movies. As observed from many western horrors movies, they incorporate ...