Sound In Film: Part 2

After filming a movie, the movie still needs changes to make it more aesthetically pleasing, interesting, eye-catching, etc. This is where Sound is introduced. Sound in film is a technical code used by filmmakers to make it audibly pleasing and to enhance the genre, therefore, attracting more audiences. In this blog, I will be discussing the second element of sound and, since there are four key elements of sound, this blog will be discussing one of those elements, and in the future, there will be two more blogs discussing the last element and in the previous blog, dialogue was discussed, equating to four elements of sound discussed.

The next element of sound is Sound Effects. This also plays an important role in sound because it emphasizes the actions that are being taken on- and off-screen. Sound effects can be used in many ways including: Enhancing the genre of the film, making the film more (or sometimes less) realistic, etc. An example of sound effects is rain falling. Obviously, rain when the camera records it can be noisy and distracting, so the filmmakers take it as their responsibility to create their own, pleasing, less noisy version of rain such as pouring a watering can on cement and footsteps between the droplets. This will give the scene a more realistic touch to it, and also make it pleasant to the ears.