FILM 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Sound Design, Media Studies, Classical Hollywood Cinema
Document Summary
Film history sometimes refers to silent film and the coming of sound . Sound was (more or less) reliably synchronized to the moving image in 1927, e. g. , the jazz singer. Cinema & media studies sometimes ignores sound. We cannot pause sound in the same way we can still a moving image. Sound affects impact and and meaning of image. Acoustic parameters of sound: loudness (aka volume or amplitude (loud > quiet, pitch (aka frequency) (high > low) Doppler effect: timbre (aka quality, texture, colour) E. g. , a tone from a musical instrument w same pitch and volume will have different timbre. Voice, spatial echo: rhythm, beat (regular >irregular, tempo (fast > slow, accents (stronger or weaker beats) Types & functions of sound: vocal sounds. Speech is performed: emphasis, punctuation, tone, dialect. All in conjunction with visual elements of facial expression, gestures. Dialogue overlap: used to smooth over a cut: music. Composed specifically for a film: film score.
