Chapter 7Sound Design
It’s been said that sound is half the movie. This chapter is dedicated to that idea.
Sound design is a serious secret weapon in selling your visual cuts. It can hide or even motivate a cut. It’s also another weapon in delivering pacing and rhythm to an edit. Finally, sound is also capable of delivering believability and life to the environment surrounding the story, providing the subliminal clues that make an audience feel like they’re in a real place, immersed in the story in a way that the picture alone can’t do.
While some editors will cut and even screen without using music, there has been unanimous agreement among the editors I’ve interviewed that spending time constructing a strong sound bed of effects, atmospheres ...
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