8 January 2008
Walter Murch on Sound Design
Posted by nl under: Editing; Making of; Filmmakers .
Head over to the Transom’s web site for a great sound design lesson from Walter Murch. In the the essay Walter Murch touches on the following topics:
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Treating sound as light. For example, white light contains all color of the spectrum. Therefore white sounds would contain all sounds heard together. By using this visual queue you can isolate the sounds you need in your scenes.
Sound effects fall between speech and music, because they refer to something specific, like a door opening or a car horn.
It’s an nice read and it makes you look at sound in a new way.
Check it out here.
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Walter Murch Tutorial on Sound Design at FreshDV Says:
14 January 2008 at 10:01 am.
[…] Thanks to Flippant News for pointing out this great article by accomplished film editor Walter Murch. It delves deeply into the underlying motivations and cues in great sound design. Not to be missed! Here’s an excerpt. “This metaphoric use of sound is one of the most flexible and productive means of opening up a conceptual gap into which the fertile imagination of the audience will reflexively rush, eager (even if unconsciously so) to complete circles that are only suggested, to answer questions that are only half-posed. What each person perceives on screen, then, will have entangled within it fragments of their own personal history, creating that paradoxical state of mass intimacy where—though the audience is being addressed as a whole—each individual feels the film is addressing things known only to him or her.” Share This […]
