Sound film

The movie The Sound of Music (Wise, 1965) is a movie worth watching because it offers a view into the lives of a pre-World War II family. The film is based on the true story of the Van Trapp family that lived in Salzburg, Austria from 1922 to 1938. In the film, Captain Van Trapp is widowed and left with 7 children to raise on his own, so he sent for a nanny from the local convent to take care of his kids until he could find a new wife. The family had always been musical in the past, but since

Sound, in a film, is the element that the filmmaker uses to explain a movie’s story. It reproduces and magnifies the world that has been created by visual elements of the film. The aural effects of certain objects, settings and characters are what define the sound. There are many types of sound when it comes to film and they all play a specific part in telling the story. Examples of sound are diegetic and nondiegetic sound. Diegetic sound comes from a source within a film’s world and this is the

1. Introduction “Hearing is believing”, as the potential motto of all sound practitioners inteprets, sound has played a great part in our daily life, so as in the world of film. The first film with basic sound showed up in the year of 1900 in Paris. Though the technique is quite juvenile, it is indeed a breakthrough in the film history. The first film with synchronous sound, which is actually the real sound film as we recognized, is ‘The light of New York’ published at 1928 by the Vitaphone Corporation

Sound is a vital part of a movie and is manufactured with the intent of helping tell the story in a more effective and creative way. Orson Welles created a deep focus sound for Citizen Kane and in doing so he created an audible Mise-en-Scene of sorts. Sound can be used to raise or lower the anticipation of the audience or to assist with overlapping/transitioning between scenes in a more fluid way, giving the film more continuity. Alred Hitchcock mastered the art of using sound to express a point

Sound has been used in films since the silent era to denote the change in mood and develop characters actions through piano soundtracks played through the film. Better sound systems have developed with time allowing for the use of actors’ voices and special sound effects. This has led to better diegetic a¬¬nd non-diegetic effects. Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Darjeeling Limited are films directed by Wes Anderson released in 2009 and 2007 respectively. As shown below sound techniques were used to develop

Sound in animation is an interesting thing because it’s usually an afterthought for some filmmakers, especially those just starting out. This can even be said of early animation where sound was recorded to the finished picture. After viewing some examples of early animation I find it to be true that the soundtrack plays just as big of a role as the picture in animation. The influence of sound can be found in early films such as Peter and the Wolf, 1946 and Music Land, 1935. In these films sound

four dimensions of film sound that can be found in this clip from the 1960’s film Psycho, these are rhythm, fidelity, space, and time. When directing this scene Alfred Hitchcock had to make a lot of decisions regarding sound in it. Each of these choices has different implications and will affect the audience differently. Let's start with fidelity, I believe Hitchcock purposely implemented a lot of fidelity in this scene. I think he used common and familiar environmental sounds in the background while

The Sound of Music For my first paper, I decided to choose a film I had heard a lot about but had never seen, The Sound of Music. This film was released in 1965 and was an instant hit around the country. It broke the record for most box office hits of all time and it really brought out the light in musicals. It has a lot of significance in film history because it was one of the first major musicals. There had not been a lot of musicals before this film and with how successful this film was it paved

Sound in movies, it draws you in and helps complete the story that is being told on screen. Technology has increased immensely since the 1970’s and with this increase it has allowed the producers to focus sound and make it an immersive part of the experience (Monahan & Barsam p.364). The producers can focus sound and draw attention to a specific direction. They can also vary the types of sounds we hear such as hearing music when we expect to hear an airplane taking off, all of this sets the tone

Sound started being introduced to films in the 1920s. These films were so successful that lines around the whole street were formed for “The Jazz Singer”. But, many companies weren’t open to the idea of innovation and expressed that they would rather have their films silent. Many citizens and stage owners were concerned about talking films too, they couldn’t tell if this was just a fad. My favorite part of the film was when they were talking about how since sound films (“talkies”) were becoming