How Sound Impacts Animation

Sound is something quite special, impactful, and adds layers of elements and complexity to a film. As with the progression of the movie making medium, sound has grown and changed drastically over the decades. However, sound cues in the form of effects, dialogue, and everything in between, shapes our perceptions of a scene and movie.

For example, in the nut sorting room, when Veruca’s shoes are clicking on the floor, which is a diegetic sound. This creates the effect that everything has suddenly gone very quiet and anticipation is growing. But, in Big Fish, Tim Burton uses sound to make people feel many different things. For example, in the town of Spectre, when the townspeople were dancing, the diegetic sounds were all of the happy dancing music. This creates the effect of happiness.

In many people’s opinions, animation means funny and humor and designed for children. The content of the animation is nothing more than fairy tales, legends, fables, etc. Animation even becomes a symbol of Disney cartoon. However, if we re-examine the animation from another point of view, we will find that it has grown out of a single commercial mode constraints. Some of the animations are complicated, obscure and abstract. Variety kinds of visual images in it stimulate the audience's optic nerves. This is the salient features of experimental animation. Experimental animation belongs to the field which between film and pure art. Innovation is the soul of it. In the production process, the

I like better the story with the animation. Personally having images to look at engages me in the story. When I am just listening, usually I start wondering around in my head get completely lost

The cinematic language that we know of today would not be as it is today if we had synchronous sound recording from the beginning of film. Cinematic Language is the systems, methods or conventions by which movies communicate with the viewer. A few examples of cinematic language are; montage; mise en scene, the use of long takes, depth of field shooting in order associate people or objects; Expressionism, the use of lighting techniques, severe camera angles, and elaborate props, to name a few aspects; and realism, a technique to make the action seem as true to life as possible. The list of techniques and styles of cinematic language go on, and can only be limited by the imagination. Early films, and early sound films both had something in common; they lacked many elements of the cinematic language. The reason sound films reverted back to the same pre-cinematic style of early films, was due to the fact that they had technical difficulties, that required them to fall into the style of the old ways. I do believe that if filmmakers would have had sound from the beginning, with the same sense of movie direction they worked with, they would have used sound as a crutch rather than an enhancing element.

It is usually pre-recorded and placed over the top of a film or video and commonly used in documentaries or news reports to explain information. Focusing on selected sounds can create tension, atmosphere, and emotion. It can also impart personality to film characters. Walter Murch (the doyen of sound designers) once described the character sounds (in a film he directed) as "coronas" which can magnify each character' s screen space. A figure who is associated with a particular sound (often suggested by his or her clothing), has "a real presence that is pervasive even when the scene is about something else or the character is off-screen."

This is important to the scene as it adds a new dimension and depth to the action being made without the sound being present. An example in this clip is when Coach Boone walks in to acknowledge the team, you do not hear his footsteps or the sound of his whistle around his neck hitting against the fabric of his shirt. The director has done this to put more emphasis on his actions, not the sound his presence is making for example, if there was an excess of sound effects for every minute sound made would distract the audience who would not be able to focus in on his paltry movement which have considerable meaning to the scene, an example of this would be the way Coach Boone walks up to the team, his whistle is swinging from side to side making no sound, you can see he is in an angry state with no sound intensifying this fact. The lack of sound effects is not used often in the whole film itself, therefore making an effect when the technique is indeed used.

Game tries to create an emotional bond between the player and the character; the sound track can help e.g. tell the player about the characters back story with right music in background. In the Last of Us it does very well in making the player having a bound with the character. In the game it uses sound to express the character feelings. The sound give the player a sense that the player is lonely and is still mourning his daughter’s death

In my opinion, the sounds effects just added a sense of proximity to the scene. The sound of the thunder and the rain established the mood for the scene really well. Other effective sound effects were rather simple, but highly effective. Some examples of these were the horses' feet stomping on the ground, the horses neighing, and the clinks and clangs of the samurai's armor and weapons. These were effective because they made you feel as if you were standing just a few feet from them. Another good sound effect was the `twang' of the bow when one of the samurai shot an arrow into the tree tops. Immediately after the arrow was fired, an evil spirit is heard laughing. Even though the laugh itself was pathetic, it was a nice touch to make you feel for the lost samurai. Throughout the whole scene, you almost always hear something, whether it's the horses, the samurai's equipment, or people talking; making sound very important in this scene.

Along with background music, sound effects play more of a role on the way we feel than many moviegoers think, and "although the function of sound effects is primarily atmospheric, they can also be precise sources of meaning in film" (Giannetti, 225). When the

It made the movie easier and more pleasant to watch. It really brought out the emotions and each scene. A great scene that used the sound effects was right away when they were escaping Weed.

Another aspect of sound in this film was how it affected the story. By using sound dramatically in certain parts and not using it at all in other parts, sound gave this story an entity of its own. For example, during long stretches of film with mostly dialogue, there was no music played in the background, only a phone ringing in the distance, or the men's voices during their deliberation. These long silences also took place during editing shots of the town and images that surrounded this German city. This dramatic difference in sound was a revelation of how mood can be made by images and sound put together to make an incredible component.

While well-crafted sound design and sound effects are so very necessary in the creation of a film, music touches the emotion, the psyche, and the things you cannot see. Sound design and effects don’t do this nearly as efficiently and naturally. Without music it would be much more difficult to follow the emotional ups and downs of a film. (Freer)

As Balsam refers , a sound can create emphasis in any scene that is, can function as a punctuation mark , when it accentuates and strengthens the visual image.

In a world where technology is rapidly developing and evolving, it is sometimes hard to keep up with the changes that are made. When looking back on changes that are made it is particularly interesting to look at the development of animation over history. Today when one thinks about animation it is impossible not to think of Disney and their major motion pictures. The Shreck films, Finding Nemo, and Happy Feet, to name just some of the dozens of animated films Disney has produced, raked in million upon millions of dollars at the box office, and have been hit films with people in all age groups.