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The Importance Of Sound In Film

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Film creators strive to create a reality as captivating to the audience, and the sound plays an important role in this. Sound shapes this made reality directly and subliminal (Holman, 2010, XI-XII), it ensures its continuity as a presence and an ambiance. Humans have a very accurate auditory sense – a legacy of skills in survival from prehistoric times – which detects and alarms at the smallest disparity. For this reason the quality and matching of the sound with diegetic environment are essential for authenticity of the created filmic reality. Therefore, is required an iconic relation between a sound and its source, symbolic sound, as a poetic reference to the source, holding a small share of the film’s soundtrack.
Because film is an art that unfolds in time unequal delivered to the audience through the cut, the sound iconicity is …show more content…

When we hear a noise or a sound, the same atavistic survival instinct help us to determine from which direction it comes, but also urges us to turn our head to see its source. Failing to identify the source creates anxiety. The film director by delaying the de acousmatisation can dose the audience 's emotions, but, sooner or later, any sound source must be revealed. Another aspect of the iconicity is the sound accuracy. If in daily life sounds are mixed up and sometimes simultaneously, filmmakers, even in cinévérité, choose and deliver them clearly and in a designed mix. Also, if listened without watching the image, these mixed sounds looks exaggerated and somehow unnaturally clear, hyperreal (Chion, 1994, 99; Holman, 2010, XII). Contrariwise, listened in the audiovisual complex of the film, sounds appear natural enhancing, and even can change the narration. This esthetic need for a clear sound is cultural not human nature, and an explanation lies in the strive of early sound film

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