Working With Audio

The addition of sound to any movie can create atmosphere, focuse attention, create rhythm, and add punch to a video presentation. Filmmakers have long considered sound to be one of their secret weapons for commanding a viewer's attention and holding it over time. It is important to understand the nature of sound and sound reproduction in order to best leverage this important tool.

A sound in nature is essentially a vibration that passes through the air. These vibrations are not unlike a ripple on a lake. Louder noises make larger ripples, quiet noises make hardly a stir. The intensity of the impact will define the spreed (frequency) of the ripples as they move away from the impact.
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Our ear is designed to act like a surface of that water - responding to sound pressure by vibrating sympathetically. We call this type of device a transducer. Microphone diaphragms are one kind of transducer. Speakers are another. Both are called analog devices because they record continuous streams of information.

Download this file and this file containing audio sound FX files to be used in our current project.