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So, OK, what do sound effects do, anyway? Didja ever stop to think about it?
Sound is an absolutely indispensable aspect of modern film
If you doubt it,just try this experiment: turn your TV to any show, watch for a minute or two, then turn your back on the screen: you'll find the soundtrack alone supplies you with enough details to keep track of the story
Now try the same thing with the picture…watch the screen, but turn off sound--the storytelling is much more difficult to follow
Sound effects can simulate reality (you see it, you hear it--you must believe it]
They can create illusion with ambient sound--for example, let's say there's a scene with a couple having a dialogue in a cafe; the sound editor places them “there” with his crowd walla for the sound (walla, by he way, is the industry term for the sound o
Another example: there's a scene with a woman sitting in her living room, the door opens and her husband walks in-- by adding sound, you can inform audience he’s driven up, parked his car, walked to the door and used his key to unlock it…none of it was s
Sound effects can also establish mood: take for example a scene of a cowboy seated by his campfire.... add an off-screen hoot of an owl and the mood is lonesome; add a wolf howling and you imply danger; add a gunshot--and you've sent the message there's a
Sound effects also evoke emotions--anticipation, possible danger, fear, joy..Picture a woman snuggling in bed, waking up: hearing distant train whistle....that brings forth a very different emotion from what we might feel if we saw her waking up in the sa
