From Week 3 reading, Creating the Sound Design.

One point that struck me from this reading was a pratical one, one that is simple yet is fundamental to sound recording and would affect the professionalism of our short film. It was how we can use the microphone to convey emotion. Using different microphones to manipulate the tonal quality of a recording is something that I would have previously completely overlooked. From the reading I now understand that one mic may enhance mellow sounds and make the the sound full bodied whilst another may capture voice’s sharper and crispier to convey an emotional edge. The placement of the microphone to the actors also affects this, closer placed mic’s create an intimate, warm sound while a mic placed futher away creates a sense of distance.

Antoher point that was interesting and new to me was the way in which certain words and sentences create an aural mood. Word choice in a sentence can affect its impact. The sentence “waves crashed against the rocks” is more appropriate than “waves hit upon the boulders” due to the hard, crisp sounds of its words compared to the rounder, gentler words of the second.