Understanding the Relationship between sound and picture

Understanding the Relationship between sound and picture

• Moving Image production

A moving image production is also known as a film. The moving images in a film are called video and in a film, you need to have a soundtrack to accompany your moving images. The film industry is booming these days and around 10,000 new films are brought out every year around the world. Here is a list of a few films which I came up with…

• Sleeping Beauty
• Free Willy
• Independence Day
• Pinocchio
• Mean Girls
• Beatle Juice
• Jaws
• Saw
• Pulp Fiction
• Layer cake
• American Beauty
• Slumdog Millionaire

Because there are so many films in the industry nowadays, they are usually categorised by their genre. As you can see from my list I have come up with many different film genre’s such as, Horror, Family, Chick Flick, Dark Comedy, Action etc.

• Soundtrack

The soundtrack is the sound recorded for a motion picture film (moving image production.)

• Diagetic Sounds/                                 Sounds from your location
• Non Diagetic sounds /                         Music added to centre emotion
• Digital Sound/                                     Used in video games
• Foley Sounds/                                      Pre recorded day to day sounds in PP
• Live Broadcasts

All of these components to a soundtrack are used all the time in moving image productions. When editing usually the soundtrack is put over the moving images to get a more accurate finished product. A diagetic sound could be something like a car moving or the background noise of a café. Non diagetic sounds could be added when a character has just found out about a death, there would be soft slow music playing in the background to centre the character’s emotions. Foley sounds would be used to enhance tension e.g. a squeaking door, footsteps, breaking glass.

Skills needed to fill the role of a sound designer and producer:

·        To be able to chose the correct equipment when recording sounds

·        To be able to use microphones to a professional standard

·        To be able to mix audio

·        Be able to consider what the finished product will be like

·        Have contacts for hiring various types of sound equipment

·        Being able to prepare all sound equipment on set and to high standards