I never used to care much for sound, until these last few weeks.
These podcasts, readings, lectorials, guest lectures have all contributed to my recent interest in sound design and production. I mean, when watching films I always focused on the visuals, understanding that the audio/sound was important, but it’s not THAT important, right? Wrong.
Especially completing an audio piece for Project Brief 4, I have a greater appreciation to time, consideration and overall creation of sound and the effects in which it can have. Through the use of depth, texturing and layering, one can easily be transported through time and space.
While studying sound, I came across this YouTube video made by SBS VICELAND about Hans Zimmer as a composer:
A DIRECTOR HAS COMPLETELY CREATED A FILM BASED ON ONE OF HANS ZIMMER’S COMPOSITIONS! It is absolutely incredible and fascinating that one song had the ability to provide so much creativity for the director that they had actually created a film based on one song.
The audio piece in which Zimmer refers to about the turning point in the film Inception (2:15) may go unnoticed in by the everyday viewer, though this creates emphasis on a major turning point in the film. So basically, whether an audio piece is layered and abstract like ‘Making Up’, or more simplistic and structured like ‘My Lobotomy’, when created and executed effectively, it will be able to produce emotion, thought and creativity – just like the way Hans Zimmer’s audio/music has on people.
The realisation I have taken from this unit:
AUDIO/SOUND IS JUST AS IMPORTANT AS THE VISUALS OF A FILM.
