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All posts by Olivia Creavy
Filters
the shore sound project
voice over/narration
examples:
fight club 1999 david fincher
blue 1993 david jarman
leitmotifs
A leitmotif can be interpreted as being the underlying theme of an entire work or piece of music, but it can also refer to one part of a musical composition that has been repeated throughout the song or work.
Lux Aeterna in Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream
Ironside siren in Tarantino’s kill bill
foley
Foley is the reproduction of everyday sound effects that are added to films, videos, and other media in post-production to enhance audio quality.
Common examples include footsteps, chewing, drinking, cloth movement, keys jingling, doorknobs twisting, etc. Foley is often much more time efficient than manually editing sounds in, and it provides a richer character and performance (and thus, realism) to certain sounds in the film.
-wikipedia
-soundsnap
needle drop moment
A “needle drop” is slang used in the film industry to describe when a pre-existing song is used in a movie. In the best cases, the audio and video become intertwined to the point where people can’t disassociate the song from the film.
-studio binder
example-Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly , 1983)- mad world -Gary Jules and Michael Andrews
sound of metal first response
| film | rating /10 | memorable scene | film element focus |
| sound of metal | 7/10 | “i cant hear anything” | sound |
diegetic vs non diegetic sound
diegetic- sounds that thee character can hear (dialogue, tv, music they’re playing, sound effects)
non diegetic- sounds that the audience can hear but the character cant (score, voice over)
sound editor vs sound mixer
mixer- brings all the sounds together (mixes them)post production
editor- records all the sound on set/ selects sounds for the mixer to put together – in production
shot types table
| name of shot | description | use |
| extreme close up (ECU) | part of the face takes up the frame | gets inside the head of the character |
| close up (CU) | the whole face takes up the frame | reveals a characters emotional state |
| medium close up (MCU) | head and shoulders in the frame | shows a characters reaction |
| low angle /high angle shot (LA/HA) | shot below(LA)/above(HA) eye line looking up | makes subject look powerful(LA)/vulnerable(HA) |
| extreme long shot (XLS) | only scenery visible cant make out individuals | used as an establishing shot |
| medium shot (MS) | one or two subjects in the frame usually from waist height sometimes OTS | master shot/two shot/shot-reverse-shot for conversations |
| pan/tilt | camera on fixed position but moves along a vertical or horizontal plane | mimics a static character looking around a scene |
| track( dolly steadicam or handheld) | the camera follows a subject | follows subject through scene, immerses audience |