Sound at the Movies

Take a moment to reflect over your experience of sound at the movies. What are 2 things things that you notice about the sound in modern hollywood movies? What is the first film that made you think about the sound of the film? What interested you? The sound effects? The sound track? The dialog? Why?

Modern Hollywood movies design sound so that the sound is heard from the right direction. For example, if a certain crash was seen on the right side of the screen, the sound would also come from the right side of the theater. In addition, sound in the movies are created after the production as folly audio. The folly artists use different tracks in order to imitate the sound that could have been on screen. Frozen was the first film that mad me think about the sound of film. Because it is an animated film, they had to create all of the audio in post. I was interested especially in how they created the wind noise that was used in the snow mountain scene. I am also interested in the quiet audio that was used to enhance the reality of the film.