An Introduction to Film

body within the frame, we’ll describe them in terms of that scale. The illustrations are from Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech(201 ...

CHAPTER NINE Sound The Hurt Locker (2008) . Kathryn Bigelow, director; Paul Ott osson, so und designer. ...

and duchess of York at a cocktail party at a royal country house. Because she is not a member of the royal family, she is not of ...

388 CHAPTER 9SOUND not the sort of gimmicky sound that takes your attention away from the story being told—“using the technology ...

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WHAT IS SOUND? 389 Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining(1980; sound: Dino Di Campo, Jack T. Knight, and Winston Ryder) opens with a ser ...

dancers to move from the stage in the back of the image, across the catwalk that ran through the audience in the middle of the i ...

no option. As light and dark create the image, so sound and silence create the sound track. Each property—light, dark, sound, si ...

Hollywood style; experimented with achieving greater depth; created sharper black-and-white images; used the high-powered Techni ...

By contrast, the contemporary concept of sound design rests on the following basic assumptions: >Sound should be integral to ...

to the realism of such European directors as Jean Renoir. French film critic André Bazin emphasizes that deep-focus cinematograp ...

place and/or move the microphones so that the sound corresponds to the space between actors and camera and the dialogue will be ...

Horace has returned home from a long hospital stay for treatment of his serious heart condition. When Regina asks him to put mor ...

Mixing Mixingis the process of combining different sound tracks onto one composite sound track synchronous with the picture. Eac ...

filmmaker is probably attempting to call special attention to the relationship between the action in the foreground and that in ...

discussion explains in detail what the table shows in summary form. The pitch(or level) of a sound can be high (like the screech ...

that visual consistency, the editor will be unable to establish continuity—though he or she may choose to preserve graphic disco ...

The quality(also known as timbre, texture, or color) of a sound includes those characteristics that enable us to distinguish sou ...

full context of the story, so we naturally tend to read its attitude toward the subject as neutral. Thus when Miss Wonderly (Mar ...

walking along a sidewalk may have been con- structed by Foley artists in a sound studio after filming was completed, but the sou ...