Sounds and Music in Film

To see the importance of sounds in TV or film, perhaps it is best to see the importance of sound in life first. It is what we experience through the senses that make life meaningful. In fact, it can be acknowledged that what is experienced through the senses is life itself. The two higher senses, seeing and hearing, are the integral fundamentals of life. They are the basis for all human’s activities. Impressions obtained through these two senses are as important as food and water. The most important aspect of sound is the ability to convey emotions. One sentence could generate two different emotions if it is said in different tone level. Ron Hubbard charted out the emotional tone scale, which shows human’s emotion at different tone range. It is described in his book "Science of Survival". Tone is simply one amongst several reasons why sound is essential, life in general, film and TV in particular. Actor and actress want to convey or generate as much emotions from the audiences as possible, using visual details such as actions, facial expressions and movements is one way to do it, but using sounds and music is also crucial.

“Sound is not just dialogue; it is everything you hear on the soundtrack including music and sound effects. Sound can be used in many different ways: to work in harmony with the image; to intensify or classify a feeling or meaning; to give a sense of place; to counterpoint with the image by suggesting quite a different agenda; and to build an expectation of things to come.”

In order to produce the necessary that emphases which in turn create desired effects, human voice, sound effects and music need to be mixed and balance. The human voice is presented by dialogue between individuals instead of notional creation...

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...story directly, or it may be used indirectly to heighten the story. A picture montage will be accompanied by music, or at least manipulated sound effects. Sound affects and is affected by mostly everyone concerned in production of a movie or TV program. Many types of sound have an immediate storytelling role in filmmaking. Dialog and narration tell the story, and narrative sound effects can be employed in such a capability too, for instance, to draw the eyes of the characters to an off-screen event. Sound plays a grammatical role within the process of filmmaking too. For example, if sound stays invariable before and after a picture cut, the indication being created to the audience is that whereas the point of view may have modified, the scene has not shifted – we are in the same space as before. So sound provides a form of continuity or connective tissue for films.