The use of sound often used to evoke irrationality, an excess of emotion, or subjectivity to a crisis. Music are common examples of formal manipulations of sound, it creates an atmosphere/tension of a film.

Scream in Psycho are replaced by violins played at a high pitch because the scream of woman being stabbed to death cannot be reproduced effectively by an actor. Sound used in film may not necessary sound the same as how it sound like in reality. We’ve discussed in class that the sound of a car accident in reality is not the same in a film, it plays with fidelity and timbre and create what the audience think it might sound like.

In Barbarian sound studio, it shows us how sound engineers used (mainly) vegetables to create slashing/stabbing sound for a horror film- how horror films are built with mundane elements. Ears is the second most important cognitive organs to absorbs knowledge. Even though there isn’t any jump scares/scary plots but the sound and music used in the film builds an atmosphere and tension, as I watch the film I was excepting something scary to happen, but it didn’t.

Sound can be used to narrate a film, it gives out information to the audience and made us believe that something is going to happen. Reflex sound are stylized and accentuated so that the audience constantly notice them Sound plays a huge part, it engages the audience and it has the power to build the audience’s anticipation of the film.