Sound

• Movies begin to talk

• The Jazz Singer,
1927
– Before was live
accompaniment
– Synchronous vs.
non-synchronous

The Jazz Singer

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• Formalistic

All That Jazz

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• Realistic
– No/minimal re-
created sounds
– Documentary-like
approach

The Fighter
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• Use of space in
sound

The Exorcist
M
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• Diagetic sound
– occurs naturally
• a character listening to
music on a stereo
• Non-diagetic sound
– Sounds you normally
wouldn’t heard
• The music during the chase
scene…

The Constant Gardener

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• Components of Sound
– Music
– Spoken word
• Dialogue
• Monologue
– EFX

Apocalypse Now
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• Components of Sound
– Music
• Formalism – Musicals

Singin’ in the Rain

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• Components of Sound
– Music
• Realism - Musicals
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• Components of Sound
– “Mickeymousing” - Cartoons

Tex Avery’s Wolf

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• Components of Sound
– Function of the composer
• Mood of film
• Characters have themes
• Underline speech

Jaws
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• Components of Sound
– Function of the composer

Psycho
Shower Scene With & Without Music
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• Components of Sound
– Contrast

A Clockwork Orange
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• Components of Sound
– Motifs

One of many music

boxes that play Dr. Zhivago
“Lara’s Theme” Lara's Theme
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• Components of Sound
– Spoken word
• Dialogue

His Girl Friday

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• Components of Sound
– Spoken word
• Monologue/Narration

Apocalypse Now

A Clockwork Orange
Sunset Boulevard
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• Jobs in Sound
• Production Sound Technician
– responsible for all audio in the
final production
– uses the sound as recorded
which is manipulated during the
editing process to obtain the
best audio technically possible
for the production
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• Boom Operator
– responsible for microphone
placement and movement
during a take
– uses a boom = a special piece
of equipment that allows
precise control of the
microphone at a distance
away from the actors
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• Sound Designer:
– brought on staff during the
planning stages of a film & works
with the director to shape an
overall, consistent soundtrack
that exploits the expressive
possibilities of the sound medium
• Supervising Sound Editor
– directs and coordinates the
creative contributions of the
postproduction sound staff and
handles all the related
administrative duties like
scheduling mixes
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• Dialogue Editor
– Includes Additional Dialogue
Recording (ADR)
– Dialog that cannot be salvaged from
production tracks must be  re-
recorded in a process called looping
or ADR
– Looping originally involved
recording an actor who spoke lines
in  sync to "loops" of the image
which were played over and over
along  with matching lengths of
recording tape
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• Music Editor
• EFX Editor -
includes Foleys
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• Foley Artist
– creates, recreates and
records sound effects, such
as raging storms or
breaking bones. Named
after famous sound editor
Jack Foley

King Kong Foleys

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• Sound Mixer
– Puts all elements together

King Kong Sound Mix

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• A Clockwork Orange, 1971
– Dir. by Stanley Kubrick, 1928-
1999
– Removed (by Kubrick) from
release until 2000 in Britain
– Rated “X” in America
– Written by Anthony Burgess in
“Nadsat” - a mix of English,
Russian and slang
– Continues in the tradition of 2001:
A Space Odyssey in use of classical
music
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