MUSIC 2F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Soundscape, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Mele Kalikimaka

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Music
• Course: MUSIC 2F03
• Professor: Andrew Mitchell

Document Summary

We need to acknowledge the language we use is limiting. Pick apart scenes to know what makes the movie work and how it functions. The image track forms the landscape of the film. The sound track forms the soundscape of the film. A third technology synchronizes the image and sound tracks so that they can work together to create meaning. Speech can provide information: plot, character, situation, theme. When a person we cannot see talks directly to us, and the image track shows us the story being told. Speech = foregrounded, music and sound effects = background. Foreground vs background in the image and sound tracks. Dialogue is privileged to foreground vs music and sound effects to the background. Anything that is non-speech that cannot be represented with words. Sound effects are often aid what we are watching. In earlier films, classic hollywood, sound effects were used sparingly. Belief that the focus needed to be on speech/voice.