sound essay

The world of sound

By Eniola Ijalana

Sound is around us every day. It can be only created by objects, movements and humans. It also means what is heard when sound waves is passing through a human ear.

What do we mean by moving image?

There’re three different effects with it comes moving images: Temporal animation, temporal linearisation and temporal vectorisation.

Temporal animation is when sound can animate an image to a greater or lesser degree. Sound’s temporarily combines with the temporarily already present in the image.

Temporal Linearisation- In the silent cinema, shots do not always indicate temporal succession, wherein what happens in shot B would not necessary follow what is happening in shot A. This will create realistic, diegetic sound impose on a sequence a sense of real time, like normal everyday experience, and above a sense that time is linear and sequential.

Temporal Vectorisation- Sounds orient the images toward a future, a goal, and create feelings of imminence and expectation. Many visual movements in a film may be played in reverse such as images of characters that speaks, or plays the piano. Sounds on the other hand are more oriented in time and hard to play backwards. Sound makes the shot going somewhere:

 

Ways that sound is used?

• Synchronous sounds are sounds that are synchronised or matched with is being viewed. For example:

If the film portrays a character playing the piano, then the sounds of the piano is being projected.

• Asynchronous sound effects are not matched with a visible source of the sound on screen. Such sounds are included so as to provide an appropriate emotional nuance, and they may also add to the realism of the film.
• Sound bridge-when the same sound or music links two scenes together.

Connecting to the sounds and pictures?

Sound is visible on the screen or whose source is implied to be present by the action of the film:

• The voices of characters
• Sounds made by objects in the story
• Music is represented as coming instruments in the story space
• Diegetic sound is any sound presented as originated from source in the film’s world. It can be also be on screen or off screen depending on whatever its source is in the frame or outside the frame.