Chapter 10The Ethics of Sound
Abstract
This chapter provides a framework for the ethical use of dialogue, music, and sound effects in narrative and non-fiction media-making. How do technical and creative sound choices influence audience perception of a story? By examining the use of sound in public/private space, location recording, sound design, and sound editing, this chapter will offer guidance in the ethical use of sound for media creation.
The different arts reach our brains in different ways; they lodge there with differing ease, at different speeds, with different degrees of inevitable simplification; and for different durations.
Milan Kundera (2010, p. 54)
Sound is all around us and always present. We cannot close our ears ...
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