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Sound perspective

What is sound perspective in film?
- Ugly Betty example of sound perspective mismatch.
What are the different types of microphone pick-up patterns? How do they affect sound perspective?

Sound and time

The time frame of a narrative scene's sound need not match the time frame of its image.
- How is time manipulated in this Damages scene?

Diegetic and nondiegetic sound

Sound technology

What are the three main types of sound in film and TV production and how do digital audio workstations mirror those three types? (See Ugly Betty ProTools layout for music editor.)
Explain these terms in the context of digital audio: sampling, dynamic range, and frequency response.

Sound exercise

In class, we'll view a Dodge commercial and examples of how sound can manipulate viewer understanding of the image--that is, can change its meaning.

As a group, choose a well-known song that, if laid over the commercial, would change its meaning. (No R-rated songs, please.) We'll find an excerpt of it online and lay it over the commercial. Be prepared to explain to the class how your song changes the commercial's meaning.
Think back to the Chevrolet commercial that we broke down and the shot of Mother, salesman, Father, son in the car. As a group, pretend you're doing ADR (and what is ADR?) for this shot and write dialogue that illustrates how sound editors can manipulate sound perspective to alter our understanding of a scene (somewhat like the sound editor of Wonder Years did in Figure 8.6, but do not copy that example).
- Illustrate how sound and time could be manipulated in this shot with some other dialogue.
- Finally, include audio that illustrates the difference between diegetic vs. nondiegetic sound.

Jeremy G. Butler, Television: Critical Methods and Applications (New York: Routledge, 2012).
David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, Film Art: An Introduction, (New York: McGraw-Hill).

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 '''Sound exercise'''
 In class, we'll view a Dodge commercial and examples of how sound can manipulate viewer understanding of the image--that is, can change its meaning.
 #As a group, choose a well-known song that, if laid over the commercial, would change its meaning. (No R-rated songs, please.) We'll find an excerpt of it online and lay it over the commercial. Be prepared to explain to the class how your song changes the commercial's meaning.