Preliminary Exercise 13: Introduction to Sound in Film (Be a Sound Engineer)

 Introduction

      Sound in film is many things that the audience can hear. These things include music, dialogue, sound effects etc. And is used to engage the audience with the film even more. It could also deliver information and heighten the nature of the production. Sound can support a genre, setting and characters by giving an audience a feeling that easily helps them determine what type of genre, setting and character that the film represents. For example, in a horror film, the audience could easily dictate that the film is scary based on the slow ambient music, the unsettling sounds, and the character's hasty dialogue. The atmosphere could be viewed differently based on what the audience hears. Compared to using something light and cheerful, it could make the audience think that the film represents the joyful and feel-good genres while something eerie and scary could cause the audience to think that the film is most likely horror or thriller. Sound can also be captivating to the audience. The more the sound matches the scenes, the more the audience will be more in tuned with the scene.

Reflection

I learned many things about sound in films during this assignment. The things I learned was that sound could cause the audience to be more engaged with your film and that different sounds contributes to different genres. In this assignment we had to do research on different genres and scenes and find their designated sounds that goes with them. Evan was in charge of Music, Joshua and Woodson was in charge of sound, and I was in charge of dialogue. In this assignment we had to put our minds together to find what sound goes with what and what was the best-known sound used in that certain genre and scene. 

Work Cited

Reich, J. (2017) 8. what is sound?, Exploring Movie Construction and Production. Available at: https://milnepublishing.geneseo.edu/exploring-movie-construction-and-production/chapter/8-what-is-sound/ (Accessed: 11 December 2023).