Introduction to Media Production, 3rd Edition

11	Sound Editing

TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION

•  What are the aesthetics of editing sound?

•  How does digital sound editing differ from analog sound editing?

•  What are the types of sound editing techniques?

•  How is film sound edited?

•  What techniques are used in mixing sound?

•  How is music editing accomplished?

INTRODUCTION

Sound editing is an extremely important stage of postproduction. Sounds can breathe life, realism, emotion, and power into visual images. Sounds can also develop their own form of expression apart from visual images, and they can be edited before, during, or after visual editing. The fact that sounds and images can be edited in tandem or independently of each other allows for considerable flexibility in terms of editing ...