Comments on: Auditory Perspective: Putting The Audience In The Scene https://designingsound.org/2013/08/21/auditory-perspective-putting-the-audience-in-the-scene-2/ Art and technique of sound design Wed, 06 Jul 2016 17:07:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.8 By: Betyr rom eller hifien mest? - Side 4 https://designingsound.org/2013/08/21/auditory-perspective-putting-the-audience-in-the-scene-2/#comment-477265 Thu, 23 Jun 2016 11:38:02 +0000 https://designingsound.org/?p=24509#comment-477265 […] fra opptaket. Men med bare direktelyd – glem det. Da trenger du ihvertfall 24 høyttalere. Auditory Perspective: Putting The Audience In The Scene | Designing Sound Mad Science: Stereo i seks kanaler Svar med […]

]]> By: Using Sound to Draw Your Audience into Your Project | Cogswell College Blog https://designingsound.org/2013/08/21/auditory-perspective-putting-the-audience-in-the-scene-2/#comment-66659 Thu, 05 Sep 2013 14:06:24 +0000 https://designingsound.org/?p=24509#comment-66659 […] the same impact on its audience as one shot from different angles? According to this article in Designing Sound by Jack Menhorn, how an audience hears sounds can either bring them into the action or keep them on […]

]]> By: Carlos Manrique Clavijo https://designingsound.org/2013/08/21/auditory-perspective-putting-the-audience-in-the-scene-2/#comment-62909 Thu, 22 Aug 2013 02:26:01 +0000 https://designingsound.org/?p=24509#comment-62909 Great article. Physical as well as emotional perspective and distance often tend to be overlooked.

There is a great scene to illustrate this point in “Citizen Kane”. Susan Alexander, then wife of Charles Foster Kane is making a puzzle on the floor of a large hall in the mansion. When Kane enters, they have a discussion from opposite corners of the room and I’d dare to say that even more than the haunting music and the visual perspective, it is the amount of reverberation in their voices that illustrates the emotional distance between them.

Some people may say that this was accidental and just a consequence of the choice of location. But very few things in filmmaking are accidental. And based on the following passage from Bordwell and Thompson about Citizen Kane, most of these doubts could easily be dispelled:

“Citizen Kane, for example, offers a wide range of sound manipulations. Echo chambers alter timbre and volume. (…) Moreover, in Citizen Kane, the plot’s shifts between times and places are covered by continuing a sound thread and varying the basic acoustics.”
[Bordwell, David and Thompson, Kristin, “Film Art: An Introduction”, 8th ed., University of Wisconsin, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2008, pg. 268]

For additional bibliographical information on this subject, I also suggest having a look at Van Leeuwen, Theo, “Speech, music, sound”, Macmillan Press Limited, London, 1999, pg. 12 .

Thanks again Karen and Jack for sharing this article with us. I’ll share it with my students right now! :)

]]> By: James Bisset https://designingsound.org/2013/08/21/auditory-perspective-putting-the-audience-in-the-scene-2/#comment-62794 Wed, 21 Aug 2013 12:15:29 +0000 https://designingsound.org/?p=24509#comment-62794 Great article on how the sound of our world around us can be re-created. Two important considerations would be how the ear responds to real-life sounds, poor low and high frequency response, how sound behaves with distance, less low and high frequency energy and how this all relates to microphone polar pattern. Proximity effect (or lack of it) can skew the perspective. Secondly compression can also skew the perspective so use carefully.

As an ear-training exercise I’d encourage everyone to listen to a (stereo) mic feed with closed-back headphones whilst wandering between different types of audio spaces, a trip from your bedroom to the kitchen via the bathroom for example will help you appreciate just how much sound can change.

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