Film Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Classical Hollywood Cinema, Dolby Digital, Cinematic Techniques

• School: Western University
• Department: Film Studies
• Course: Film Studies 1020E
• Professor: Barbara Bruce

Document Summary

Perceived highness or lowness helps distinguish distinct sounds in a film: timbre. Harmonic components that give it a certain tone quality. Choosing, altering and combining sounds: sound effects generated by foley process. Sounds of human movement in contact with surfaces: today, sound reprocessed to yield exact qualities desired, mixing. Continue dialogue across a cut, smoothing over the change of shot. Accentuates suspense evoked by pauses: sound perspective. The closer the camera is to a source, the louder the sound. Sense of spatial distance using visual depth and volume: music. Melody or musical phrase can be associated with particular character, setting, situation or idea. Musical theme can change quality when associated with different situations. Rhythm: a beat or pulse, a tempo or pace, a pattern of accents or stronger/weaker beats, speech can have rhythm, sound & image coordination. Mickey-mousing: tightly matching movement to music: sound & image disparities. Editing dialogue scenes in ways that cut against natural speech rhythms.