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Listen to the audio taken from the film. What can you hear? List all of the component parts you can hear. Which elements are most prevalent? Do they all have the same effect? For each one write down why you think they are part of the soundtrack. https://www.yahoo.com/movies/c-2013- captain-phillips-83137452922.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yqAoaB4PS

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Listen to the audio taken from the film. What can you hear?

List all of the component parts you can hear.

Which elements are most prevalent?Do they all have the same effect?

For each one write down why you think they are part of the soundtrack.

https://www.yahoo.com/movies/c-2013-captain-phillips-83137452922.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yqAoaB4PSo

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SOUND Mixing & Editing

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Learning Objective:To be able to understand how sound mixing and editing can create meaning.

Level Grade Descriptor

2 D/E To be able to identify sound mixing and editing and describe its effect.

3 B/C To be able to analyse sound mixing and editing and explain its effect.

4 A To be able to evaluate sound mixing and editing and justify its effect.Level Grade Descriptor

2 D/E Basic understanding of the way that mise-en-scène is used to construct representation.

3 B/C Proficient understanding of the way that mise-en-scène is used to construct representation.

4 A Excellent understanding of the way that mise-en-scène is used to construct representation.

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SOUND EDITING

Sound Editing is the creation and recording of new sounds, and the work that goes into cleaning up and perfecting individual sound elements. If you have ever seen Monty Python And The Holy Grail, then you know that the movies don’t actually place a microphone on a horse’s feet and make it run. Someone creates that sound in the studio (in this case, using hollowed out coconuts). Think how expensive it would be if every time you saw a thunderstorm in the movies, the entire cast and crew had to first find a location with a thunderstorm, and then run the lines a dozen times so that the lightning and thunder perfectly matched up with the dialogue. And then had to do it all over again to get a close-up shot!

They also handle mundane things like the sound of a door closing, make sure the actors’ dialogue tracks don’t contain outside noises, and record nature sounds and background noise so that the movie sounds like it was filmed on location instead of in a studio.

To understand how sound mixing and editing can create meaning.

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SOUND MIXING

Sound Mixing, by contrast, refers to the way that sounds are “mixed” or layered upon each other. That thunder (which the sound editors created) needs to be loud enough that it doesn’t get drowned out by the musical score, but soft enough that you can still hear the dialogue. Maybe you are making a horror movie and you are coming up to the big scare. Is it better to have eerie music, or does silence make for a better build up? (Note that “silence” in film is often very noisy, and includes the wind blowing, the lights flickering, or just the barely audible sound of the actor’s breathing.) Sound Mixers are the ones who determine whether the music should end abruptly, or whether it should fade out (and if so, how quickly). And if you are watching a movie in surround-sound, it is the sound mixers who set it up so that the direction the gunfire is coming from matches up with what you see on the screen.

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PERSPECTIVE

“A sound’s position in space as perceived by the viewer given by volume, timbre, and pitch.”

A film maker can manipulate the properties of sound to alter how that effect or piece of music affects the audience. In basic terms it is used to create a sense of verisimilitude; in others it is used to draw attention or reinforce meaning.

• Moulin Rouge• Casablanca• Requiem For A

Dream

Realistic PerspectiveDistorted Perspective• Jurassic Park• A Touch Of

Evil

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SOUND BRIDGE

A sound bridge is where two scenes are linked by sound, which starts at the end of the first scene and crosses over into the next. The sound bridge often highlights a thematic link between the two scenes.

In The Matrix, Keanu Reeves’ character, Neo, is rocked from what he perceives as a dream by his alarm clock. Here the sound bridge serves as a link between the two scenes, but the clock also represents the start of Neo being awoken from his ignorance of the real world, realising that he is living in the matrix.

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SONIC FLASHBACK

A sonic flashback is where sound which featured previously in the film is reused This is usually to highlight elements of plot and drive the narrative forward. It can reveal information about character as well as solve enigmas that have been previously set up.

A good example of this is the end of Sixth Sense, where we find out the truth about Bruce Willis’ character. The reveal of the twist is purely driven by the sonic flashback, aided by visuals.

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FOLEY

A foley artist creates the sound effects in post-production, often when there is no recorded sound source existing.

Foley artist Dennie Thorpe created the sound of the egg cracking in Jurassic Park by scrapping together two ice-cream cones. She then pulled at the pulp of a cantaloupe melon to simulate the wet sound of the baby dinosaur emerging from the egg. Thorpe then rubbed the rough skin of a pineapple to match the scratchy sound of the scientist cleaning the newborn’s rough skin.

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SOUND & GENRE

Pick 5 genres.

For each one, list the diegetic and non-diegetic sounds you would expect to hear.

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http://soundworkscollection.com/videos/gravity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0obQ_a6Cm-c