The
better the sound the better the shot. Most would agree that the
soundtrack of a film equals about half of the viewing experience.
The action and scenes will become flat without good sound design
to help evoke a wide range of changing emotions. Great sound design
can sometimes save a bad shot. Bad sound design can kill the best
visual shot in the world.
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"The
evolution of film has led to a new fusion of the audio and the visual.
It's a kind of poetry that abounds in aural metaphors."
–
Walter Murch
Emotional
Sound Cues
How
can you use sounds when writing your script or making your film
to cue the audience emotionally?
Adding
Emotional Air
How
can you create background sounds in your films to cue your audience
to the changing emotional states in the story?
Script
Soundtrack Breakdown
Take
out a fresh copy your script and read through it listing any
sounds you think might work well in the margins. Look for places
to add sounds to cue the audience emotionally.
Using
Different Sound Sources
An
old car radio sounds different in a film than a telephone answering
machine or a plastic record player. How can you use different
sound sources to evoke changing emotions in your story?
Case
Study: Apocalypse Now Sound Design
Apocalypse
Now won the Academy Award for Best Sound Design that year because
it used these many different types of narrative sound techniques.
See how you can use similar ideas in your films and animations
to add sound realism.
Using
Offscreen Sounds To Save Time
How
can you start writing offscreen sounds into your script to save
time in production?
"What
we play is life."
–
Louis Armstrong
Watch
some sample movies below from the online Story Engine on Storytelling
Goals, Creating Themes and Using Symbols and Metaphors. These short
films are samples from the new 20 hour step-by-step "Writing
A Great Script Fast" DVD Workshop.
Follow
along and create a great film or story idea fast! Download the Workbook
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DOC file to
edit. You can also use a notebook or paper and the Online
Workbook or watch it
in 20 Steps.
Sample
Movies
Below
are some sample movies from the 94 minute version above on Storytelling
Goals, Creating Themes and Using Symbols and Metaphors. These short
films are part of the new 20 hour step-by-step "Writing
A Great Script Fast" DVD Workshop:
Learn
how to include themes in your films and stories in this free sample
movie from the new step-by-step "Writing
A Great Script Fast" DVD Workshop:
Learn
how to use Metaphors and Symbols in your films, animations or stories
from the new step-by-step "Writing
A Great Script Fast" DVD Workshop:
Writing A Great Script Fast Makes Screenwriting Easy!