Psychology of the Home

For this week and next I won’t have to much to say or report just because I finished all the reading and I’m finishing up editing now. I will say a little about my last film chapter though. Don’t remember quite how much I said about it already, but it’s all about film sound.

There are three different types of sound in film. One, of course, being speech (dialogue) – whenever anyone speaks. The second is music (underscoring, sound effects, and sound fidelity), and third is sound effects.

There are also the qualities of sound to consider. The volume, pitch, timbre, and rhythm. I feel like all those parts speak for themselves, except for maybe the timbre. The timbre refers to the synaesthetics of sound (color and feel).

I think it would be really fun to create some of these sound effects. There’s a ton of different ways. Some ways include:

Dry Recording: sound captured in a studio sound booth, where no ambient noise is allowed.

Futzing: The process of manipulating a recording to create a fuzzy or tinny sound.

and..

Foley: creating sounds using available tools.

There are also different uses of sound, such as formal cues. The way sound makes you look for something or feel different emotions for the scenes.

There’s also external diegetic sound and internal diegetic sound; external being outside the minds of the characters, and internal is sound existing for the audience but it’s in the mind of the characters.

I used a lot of voiceover with my project. The audience will hear people talking while viewing other footage or pictures that the person is speaking about. Then I cut back to the people talking. I think this creates a great effect. It is my way of developing internal and external uses of sound.

Here are a couple pictures you will see in the video…