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FTV2: REFLECTION/ANALYSIS 4, Q1

In this clip from Forbidden Lies, Anna Broinowski’s 2007 film: describe in detail all of the audio, how it may have been recorded/sourced and how you think it has been edited / layered in post. (You do not need to describe how the music was recorded)
(Note: An essay is not required here, three hundred words max should suffice. However care should be taken with expression, syntax and editing.)
The things I can plainly hear: bird chirps, ding sound effect of teeth/smile glinting, wind, sand crunching, cash register beep, keyboard typing, camera shutter sound, heartbeat sound, paper moving (accompanying shifting labels on map), coins jingling, cigarette lighter click, pages turning, construction sounds, ding (tick) sound, dialogue, atmosphere sound, music (different songs).
Much of the sounds in this video clip are foley / sound effects that have been employed to accent the visuals.
The diegetic audio is largely made up of various dialogue and atmos sound recordings. Dialogue would have been recorded on location through sync sound. The atmos tracks would probably be wild tracks. Some other location sounds may have also been recorded as wild tracks and then layered into the soundtrack in post-production.
Foley would have been added in post, alongside music. Having been collected, these atmos tracks, dialogue/sync sound tracks, foley/sound effect tracks, music tracks would then have been layered in post-production. Then comes the cutting and mixing. (My understanding of the sound-editing and mixing processes is not yet strong enough to go into much depth.) The pitch/frequency of a sound effect is changed. Distracting sounds from the sync sound track are removed and replaced with atmos. Things are faded in and out. Dialogue is used as voice over. Music volume is made to rise and fall at specific moments. Individual tracks are altered and layered among the rest to build the overarching soundtrack for the film.

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