Sound Ideas
Sound does not simply accompany pictures. It contributes subtly to their effectiveness. Through music or sound effects you can create illusion; suggesting a time or place, a situation. You can build up a mood, suggest foreboding, horror, comedy.
Depending on the accompanying sound, the same picture can convey entirely different meanings; e.g. a display of flowers, suggesting a ballroom, a wedding, a funeral.
You can devise an atmospheric sound picture for subjects where no sounds actually exist; e.g. sculpture, painting, architecture.
Where appropriate associated sounds were absent when shooting a scene (e.g. birdsong), you can add them later. You can even add sounds as an ironic comment; e.g. shots of a derelict factory, accompanied ...
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