CIN380H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sound Recording And Reproduction, Soundscape, David Bordwell
18 Sep 2018
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What constituted good sound is what drove engineers and separated out the bad from the good. Reconstructing a technological social events from the perspective of its user groups. Useful in seeing how we moved from the invention phase and then had to morph for the purposes of film into something else. At least five years of intense debate. How we understand this trajectory of how sounds come to film the designs and practices change based on competing user groups (two competing groups = studios + engineers) Social shaping of sound how sound technology is shaped based on aesthetic value becomes the focus (this manipulated sound in classical film style) Major studios hire technological engineers to help them figure it out. They were struggling to balance volume with sound distortion. Re-recording and dubbing was very primitive couldn"t do this until mixers became really good, which happened at symposiums. 3 key elements of sound (1) dialogue, (2) music, and (3) effects.
