Soundscape Analysis
A soundscape is a range of sounds that are used to add to the atmosphere to a video or place, for example if it’s New York City and your in a apartment and it’s raining and windy the soundscape would be the rain, wind and the noise of the rain hitting the apartment window. Soundscape is important in a film because it sets the mood of the scene,giving the audience a more immersive feel. This also gives the audience that extra involvement with what’s on screen in that moment. The viewer may also connect more when the soundscape matches the scene because it creates that realistic feel also, adding to the overall immersive experience within the film.
In this video you can identify each sound easily, the rain is more prominent in this video though, you can hear the rain hitting the leaves and branches very clearly throughout the video. The video itself is very scenic and relaxing it looks like it was filmed at the top of a forestry mountain or just in the woods, the video gives an accurate representation of how this would sound in person, visually too. If you where to either add sound or take away sound you could easily change this environment, one way you can do this could be changing the environment to a cold dark basement, this can be achieved by removing the sounds of the rain hitting the branches but keeping the rain and adding a the sound of rain hitting a roof of a house or an apartment, and finally adding water hitting a damp concrete floor this will be recreating water droplets coming from the building into the basement. Another way the environment could be changed is for example you could turn it from the woods to a play park, this could be achieved by adding more metallic noise with rain hitting it, and the squeak of park equipment moving in the wind.
Walking in the Rain in Manhattan, NYC (Binaural City Sounds) 4k Rain Ambience - YouTube
In this video there is multiple sounds that are very prominent throughout the video a few examples of this are ambulance sirens, chatting amongst people, cars etc. There is a whole variety of sounds that make up this one video. With NYC being one of the most populated and largest cities in the world it is full of different unique sounds, another example of sound in NYC is the multiple use of different language amongst people chatting, in this video a lot of different people walk past the camera living their day to day life, these people have a range of really exciting lives to sad and lonely lives, you can see a range of different characteristics among these people as they walk pass, from what they are wearing to how they walk and talk in this environment. A way in which you can change this environment and make it something else could be that you get rid of the rain add some desert like winds and get rid of the rain hitting umbrellas and replace it with camel noises and instantly you're in the Sahara desert, changing environments with just sounds is fairly easy to do because there's no visual and if the sounds are correctly placed within the order of other sounds it can create a whole new audio based environment.
With all this being said it is clear that sound can create all sorts of environments if used correctly, we have also identified that sound within film is very necessary to capture either a relationship or a intense chase, without the correct use of background music it could completely take the life out of the whole shot, making it boring and lessening the experience of what is on screen. A soundscape is needed in every film to even tell the story, the story of a film is also helped by the music in the film, making sure it gets the whole story mood and setting correct so that the audience perceives the film how it should be, when a story hasn't got that help of background music it could confuse the audience watching, for example if there was a significant story line scene but there was no intense music for example when there was an intense conversation then the audience wouldn't perceive it as intense and in doing so would miss out on a key story line detail. A example of this would be in the film "The Batman" when Batman says " I am vengeance" there is intense fight music playing in the background which indicates something intense is about to happen in this case it was a fight, but if there was happy and joyful music in the background this would completely throw you off and confuse you. In conclusion a soundscape is very important for a film to have to tell that story, relationship, friendship,argument or anything with emotional background, all so that the audience knows exactly what's going on and why it is.
Comments
Post a Comment