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Audio Post Production for Television and Film, 3rd Edition
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Audio Post Production for Television and Film, 3rd Edition

by Hilary Wyatt, Tim Amyes
July 2013
Beginner to intermediate
304 pages
9h 21m
English
Routledge
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Preparing for the mix: Sound Effects Editing

Hilary Wyatt

Aims

Whether the project is a documentary that will be tracklaid and mixed in one studio session, or a feature that will have a complex tracklay carried out by a team of editors, the main aim of the sound fx editor is to create an audio landscape which draws the audience into the ‘reality’ created by the director and out of the environment in which they are actually viewing the film. Sound effects have a number of other functions within the soundtrack:

  • Sound effects can create the illusion of reality. Silent archive footage in a war documentary will be perceived differently with the addition of a few sound fx of machine-gun fire and explosions. A studio set will be less likely to ...
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ISBN: 9780240519470