Filmmaking
Attention to Sound Design in Film
Sound design is one of the fundamental aspects of film. The first film professor this author ever had told the class on the first day of class: it does not matter how good or how poorly crafted the images of the film are; if the sound is terrible, the filmmaker has lost the audience. As humans are primarily visual beings, the average viewer may not be aware of how great a role sound design plays in the film experience and film production. The presence of sound, audio, and music in films is integral to the successful suspension of belief by the audience, which is necessary for them to lose themselves within the narrative and the world of the film.
Audiences are often keenly aware of music as accompanying a great song in a well cut and well shot scene help add fame to the film and fame to the musicians who recorded the song. In the 21st century, it is common movie-goer knowledge that artists who compose the soundtrack can become instant stars as fast as the film is distributed to domestic and international theaters. More knowledgeable viewers have awareness of the importance of sound design with respect...
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Assignment The 1987 film The Princess Bride has become part of the public consciousness, and has what can be considered a cult following. While on the surface it seems like a frivolous romantic film, what makes The Princess Bride enduring is that it manages to be satirical without being cynical. The quirky dialogue of the film has given the popular culture catchphrases like �As you wish,� �inconceivable,� and Mandy Patankin�s
45). There are also important racial issues that are examined throughout "A Touch of Evil"; these are accomplished through what Nerrico (1992) terms "visual representations of 'indeterminate' spaces, both physical and corporeal"; the "bordertown and the half-breed, la frontera y el mestizo: a space and a subject whose identities are not fractured but fracture itself, where hyphens, bridges, border stations, and schizophrenia are the rule rather than the exception" (Nericcio,
196)." This is what we see during the 1980s to throughout the 1990s cinema with films like Fatal Attraction (Lyne, motion picture film), Predator (McTiernan, John (dir), 1987, motion picture film), the Terminator film and sequels (Cameron, James (dir), 1984, 1991, and 2003, motion picture film), the Mad Max (Miller, George (dir),1979, 1981, and 1985, motion picture) series, and the Lethal Weapon (Donner, Richard (dir), 1987, 1989, 1992, and
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Ethics of Film Production It goes without saying that film producers owe a certain level of responsibility to not only those being filmed but also to the audience. During production, a number of key considerations should ideally be taken into account in regard to how the film will impact on those who happen to be part of it i.e. during its production, those who will view it on release as well
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