Preliminary Exercise: Introduction to Sound

Sound in film plays a crucial role in the filmmaking process. Sound in film is used to enhance the visual storytelling. Sound includes dialogues, music, sound effects, ambient noise, background noise, and soundtracks. Sound is used to enhance a movie by engaging its audience, creating tension, evoking emotions, and delivering important information. The characteristics of sound consist of loudness, pitch, and timbre.

The three main important sounds are dialogues, music, and sound effects. Dialogue is the spoken exchange of words between one or more characters. It's most commonly used to show a conversation between two characters. Music in film is exactly what it sounds like, music that is in a film. Though it sounds simple it plays many roles in a film. Music can help to establish the setting, plot, atmosphere, and evoke certain emotions from the audience. Music can also help to create foreshadowing. Sound effects in film any sound that was artificially reproduced. Some examples of this are a creaking door or thunder. This is mainly used to create a dramatic effect, which helps to engage the audience.

The two main types of sounds in film are diegetic and non-diegetic. Diegetic sounds in film are sounds that originates from the film's world. It can either be from on-screen or off-screen, but it always happens at the same time that the action takes place. For example, if the shot is showing a car turn on the audience will hear the engine turning on. This sound can be either from on-screen or off-screen, but it's considered diegetic since it's happening at the same time the car is shown turning on. Therefore, non-diegetic sounds are only sounds that the audience can hear not the characters in the film's world.

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