THE SOUND

1. Technical characteristics of sound and its expressive function and

adaptation to audiovisual productions.

2. Technical characteristics of sound.

  - The sound is a variation of pressure in the air, a vibration that propagates
in an elastic medium in the form of waves. Its speed is 330 m / s.

3. The expressive function of sound.

  - Increase the sense of reality of an image.

  - Transmit information.

  - Help create environments.

4. Expressive qualities of sound.

  - TONE: Refers to the sharpness and the seriousness of the sound.

    * Serious: weakness, penstez, tranquility, etc.

    * Acute: brilliance, nervousness, something great, etc.

  - INTENSITY: Refers to how strong or weak the sound is:

    * Strong: strength, importance, gravity ...

    * Weak: tranquility, weakness.

  - TIMBRE: Identifies the source of the sound and its personality. It helps us

     to distinguish the sound of the voices of the instruments, etc.

5. Expressive qualities of sound.

  - TEMPO: Refers to the speed of music execution or sound production.

    * Slow: monotony, control, tranquility, dignity, ...

    * Fast: excitement, sensation of speed.

  - RHYTHM: Proportion saved between the time of one movement and that of

a different one.

    * Constant: monotony, stupidity, etc.

    * Changing: confusion.

  - ATTACK: way the sound begins.

    * Violent: danger, violence, hardness, ...

    * Soft: something foreseeable, boring, …

  - DECLINE: end of sound.

    * Brusco: confinement or definition, ...

    * Paused: distance, doubt, softness, …

6. Diegetic and non-diegetic sound.

  - Diegetic sound

    * Sound whose source is represented in the space of the image.

    * Voices of the characters.

    * Sounds produced by objects within the action.

    * Instrument music present in the image.

  - Non-diegetic sound

    * Sound whose source is not represented in the image space.

    * Voice of the narrator.

    * Sound effects to give more drama.

    * Musical atmosphere; instruments absent from the scene.

7. The sound elements of audiovisual works.

   

  - These are:

    * The human voice

  · Dialogue.

  · The comment in off.

  · Interior monologue.

    * Music

  · Informative function (the lyrics of a song, for example, can explain things).
· Draw attention.

  · Give rhythm to an image or succession of them.

  · Expressive functions (creates emotional climates).

  · Grammar function (serves as a transition between sequences, etc.).

    * Sound effects and environments

  · They attract attention.

  · They bring greater realism to the content.

    * The silence

  · The silence known as pause or fourth voice of the radio, is full of sense
provided that it is known employ, intrigue, arouse reflection or dramatize
information.

8. Some examples.

  - The sound effects are very interesting and nothing is left without special
effect: lightsabers, pistols, explosions, opening doors, driving vehicles, etc.
Star Wars, 1977. George Lucas.

9. Some examples.

  - In one of the fragments of this film, you hear the Seventh Cavalry with the

    background noise of the helicopters (aerial horses), and then the famous
Walkirias Cavalcade, by Wagner, as a way of exasperation of the enemy.
Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola in 1979.

10. Some examples.

  - In The Birds of Hitchcock music is nothing more than an organization of
sounds that serves to give appearance musical to a band especially of
sound effects, confer an indefinite and organized aspect to the the birds
screech, increasing the sensation of strange threat.

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