Filmmaking: Storytelling With Sound

Sign up for a month's free trial at The Great Courses Plus: http://ow.ly/TBV430beO1W The Great Courses Plus is currently available to watch through a web browser to almost anyone in the world and optimized for the US market. The Great Courses Plus is currently working to both optimize the product globally and accept credit card payments globally. Cinematic sound isn't limited to explosions, musical cues, or the Wilhelm scream. Let's take a few minutes and explore a more theoretical and storytelling-oriented approach to on-screen sound. Press the CC button for film titles. Interview w/Ben Burtt- see the Criterion edition of 'Modern Times' Sources/Further Reading- Composing in Sound and Image by Jonathan Rosenbaum - http://bit.ly/2h70G7h Nightmare Alley: Do We Hear What He Hears? by David Bordwell - http://bit.ly/1MT5g0b You can follow me through: Twitter- twitter.com/andymsaladino YouTube- youtube.com/c/theroyaloceanfilmsociety Music by Chillhop: youtube.com/chillhopdotcom Nothing But Luv by aso: soundcloud.com/aricogle/nothing-but-luv Listen on Spotify: http://bit.ly/ChillhopSpotify

Your filmmaking lesson for the day comes courtesy of the fine folks at The Royal Ocean Film Society.  (And they have to be massive Wes Anderson marks with a name like that, right?)  Anyway... we can never have too many reminders of the importance of sound in film.  In fact every legendary filmmaker I've ever seen weigh in on the subject agrees that, if they have to choose, audio is more important than visuals; that an audience can acclimate to weird or sub-standard cinematography, but never bad audio.