https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5GuqBA3cKI

In this week, we learnt about how to use sound effects appropriately in the documentary.

Sound is used to express the emotions of a film and it can promote the story development, it helps the audience get closer connection with the film or the character in a film, take audience to a deeper place. On the other hand, sound can also tells some detailed information, which makes the story more complicate. Appropriate background music leads the audience resonate with it. Human voice can’t dominate the film, In the film “Daybreak Express” by D.A. Pennebaker(1953), there’s no human voice, the director focus on sounds of ambience and background music in line with the rhythm of the film to set off the atmosphere and promote the progress of film. I like the sound effects at the beginning and the end, it is the noise of the train station, this is a well-echo from the beginning to end, make the movie more complete, this made the documentary poetic. A poetic documentary encourages new ways of perception and emotional coordination between nature, film and audience, focusing on sound to show how these films provide meaningful and fantastic moments( Warren, 2019). For the audio editing in my film, I found many sounds of ambiences, made the film more natural. For a more realistic restoration, I adds the noise of the possum in, in addition, i interspersed with background music that highlighted the tension of the story, it also foreshadowed the occurrence of the following event. All this elements made the story more attractive, closer to the audience.

Reference:

Daybreak Express. 1953. [film]. Directed by D. A. Pennebaker

Warren, Shilyh “Hum, Buzz, Gurgle/ Ecological Soundscapes in Poetic Ecodocs.” In Annabelle, Honess Roe and Maria Pramaggiore, Vocal Projections : Voices in Documentary. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury, 2019.