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Sound Design and Foley, Crafting a World of Sound for Movies.

Why are you interested in this area? As I have probably said a hundred times by now sound simple fascinates me. There is just something about it that baffles me about how movies use it so effectively to transport us into another world.

Introduction Obviously this is a rough sketch of my introduction. I wanted to address the concept of how sound makes us view the world around us and movies. I also wanted to mention the different types movies that use sound differently.

Sound has shaped the way we look at the world. We associate certain sounds with certain things. A city makes us think about car horns and traffic with people yelling at each other. While a calm beach brings the sea quietly turning and birds in the trees chirping in the wind. These same principals apply to sound in movies, different types of movies give us different sounds. War movies seem to be very loud with all the action going on screen. Romances tend to be quite making it easier to focus on the dialogue. The type of movie influences the soundscape immensely and how the sound designers design the sound for a particular movie. Sound Design and Foley gives the director a more realistic environment to capture the audience’s emotions by creating more depth then just the visual field in a film.

Scope I am writing this paper to try and teach the class about sound and how directors use it to further there ability to create a work of art. I hope I can give the class an appreciation for sound by the end of my project.