Soundscapes

Soundscapes can simply be defined as ambient sounds in a neutral environment. It can explain a lot and just by simply listening the audience can interpret and understand more. The soundscape can be useful in understanding the; Genre, Tone, Historic Period, Location & Characters of a films opening. When creating a film sound is not always recorded live, majority of it can be recorded after. This is known as dubbed audio.

 Even so some sound are later recreated by someone called a Foley Artist. there job is too recreate sounds that want to be heard within a scene. Such as brushing of a jacket or someone getting hit. Since most of these sounds are not created live the Foley Artist is job is very difficult. They are alone in a room with a microphone and objects and they have to recreate the specific audio with those resources. Such as, someone getting hit can be recreated by a wet  towel being slapped on a table.

 We have talked about sound techniques before and the various differences. Majority of sounds can be diegetic or non diegetic. It can be described as a soundtrack or a score. A score is known to be a track that has been created for that particular film. It is unique and only can be used for that specific purpose. Even so dialogue or voice overs could be used, to give a different emphasis.