Chapter | Twenty-Three
Audio Editing
OVERVIEW
More than half of what we get from a movie is from the soundtrack. Make it work harder for you.
If you’ve got:
Footage with voices, sound effects, background sounds, music, or any other sounds.
Then you need to:
Organize these sounds into a coherent shape on the edit timeline. It’ll sound huge.
DESIGN YOUR SOUNDTRACK
Walter Murch is the guy who invented sound design, and he talks about sound like it’s light and color. You get hot colors and cold colors, so you get hot and cold sounds.
Murch divided sounds up like a color spectrum, from violet to red, placing warmer sounds (like a feline purr, or wind in the trees) in the red zone, and cooler sounds (like speech or machines) in the violet. ...
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