Rerecording of sound

Sound design is the process of creating the sound for a particular film. It is the sound crew’s job (including the sound designer) to do this task. It is the sound designer’s responsibility to supervise the recording, rerecording, editing, mixing, and addition of sound effects. 2. Recording is the process of capturing sound through a microphone and converting it to an electric data and then storing it to a storage device. Rerecording of sound is the process of adding dialog to the film, this is more popularly known as dubbing. Actors synchronize the added dialog to the movements of their lips on film.

Mixing is the process of integrating different soundtracks into one soundtrack in synch with the picture. And lastly editing (sound) is the process of arranging and placing sound where they should be on the film. 3. Diegetic sound is sound coming from a source that is found within the story’s setting. Nondiegetic sound is sound coming outside the setting of the film, they are usually background music. 4. A movie is not limited to a certain number of soundtracks. It depends on the type and amount of sound required to tell the story effectively.

It means sound designers have limitless options to choose from, tracks are usually combined to have the desired effect. 5. Onscreen sound is sound coming from a source that is seen by the viewers. Off-screen sound is sound from a source that is hidden from view, they are either diegetic of nondiegetic. Internal sound is sound that is heard (or imagined) only by a certain character. The character may be deep on thought or is talking to him or herself. External sound comes from a source that is within the story’s world, and these sounds are heard by both the audience and the characters. External sound can either be both on screen or off screen.

6. Ambient sounds are sounds coming from the setting or environment that is being filmed. Ambient sounds are either recorded during filming or are just added during postproduction. Sound effects are artificial sounds created for the soundtrack of the film, they have specific purposes in telling the story. 7. Sometimes techniques can be modified to make it appear that music is both diegetic and nondiegetic at the same time. In the movie There’s Something About Mary, the chorus can only be seen and heard by the viewers but in the end the chorus was accidentally shot, thus existing in the movie.

8. Diagetic sounds give the viewers awareness o f spatial and temporal dimensions. Diagetic sounds orient the audience for direction because the shot usually shows the place where the sound is coming from. 9. An example of a movie with sound that is faithful to its source is The Ice Storm by Ang Lee. Sound designers used sounds of an ice storm to emphasize the troubles of two families. During the climax of the film, there was an ice storm, Sound designers produced sounds of an ice storm to compliment the falling apart of the marriage of the characters.

On the movie Love Me Tonight by Rouben Mamoulian a vase was dropped during a chaotic scene, but instead of hearing the actual vase breaking into a million pieces, we hear off-screen, a bomb exploding, suggesting the social order is under fire. 10. Sound bridge is a sound that is depicted as if coming out of an onscreen source but is actually coming from a source that is just about to appear on screen or on the next scene. It is used to link to actions happening at the same time, but at different locations.

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