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- 1. Walter Murch By Mariam Salem & Claire Olney
- 2. Complete: Walter Murch says âWhatever virtues _____ brings to _____ are largely perceived and appreciated by the ____ in ____ termsâ This translates to âthe better _____, the better ______â Words to choose from: Audience, film, Visual, sound, image, sound.
- 3. Completed Walter Murch says âWhatever virtues sound brings to film are largely perceived and appreciated by the audience in visual termsâ This translates to âthe better sound, the better imageâ
- 4. Born 1943 in New York City. He was the first sound designer He has won 3 Academy Awards âThe most respected film editor and sound designer in the modern cinema.â
- 5. The Conversation The Conversation is a 1974 American mystery thriller film. Walter Murch edited picture and mixing sound The conversation. â Narrative unity: Just as music composition has its own structure it can aid in the formal unity of the film by employing repetition, variation, and counterpoint, thus supporting the narrative as well. Johnson (1989)
- 6. Apocalypse Now (1979) Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Walter Murch was the sound designer and sound editor. The film is admired for its realistic sounds such as the gunshots being fired, helicopters and explosions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v =f96p-IhcZhQ Johnson (1989)
- 7. Influences in Sound Design â Murch was one of first people in film to ever be called âsound designerâ â Walter Murch pioneered techniques in cinema, including worldizing. â He builds a total sonic design, including music, sound effects and expressive silences, at times even editing the movies, himself, to make certain that sound was a pivotal part of the audiovisual style and storytelling To conclude...
- 8. References â About Walter Murch | Biography | Film editor, Sound designer, Sound designer | United States of America. [online] Available at: https://upclosed.com/people/walter-murch/ [Accessed 28 Feb. 2019]. â https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntPHFVWDIqM â https://youtu.be/o43Ykjm5NIY â Johnson, William. "Sound and Image." Film Quarterly (ARCHIVE) 43.1 (1989): 24. Web. â Triple Oscar Winning Sound Designer & Editor Walter Murch Deconstructs Iconic Sequence from âApocalypse Nowâ for NFTS Students. [online] Available at: https://nfts.co.uk/blog/triple-oscar-winning- sound-designer-editor-walter-murch-deconstructs-iconic-sequence- [Accessed 28 Feb. 2019]. â Unsung Heroes and Silent Pioneers: An Interview with Sound Designer Walter Murch | [online] Available at: http://www.16-9.dk/2018/09/interview-with-walter-murch/ [Accessed 28 Feb. 2019]. â http://filmsound.org/terminology/worldizing.htm
Editor's Notes
- Movies he has worked on: Apocalypse Now, The Godfather I, II, and III, American Graffiti, The Conversation, and The English Patient. Has worked with directors such as George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola. He edits upright, and writes lying down, verticality being apparently more conducive to firing up that part of his mind
- for which he received an Academy Award nomination in sound in 1974. Since the plot is heavily based on taped conversations, the dialogue and the sound effects associated with the tapes play an integral part for the meaning of the film. The background noise and music that is non-diegetic is also for setting the mood and emotions involved in certain scenes. A strong example of the effect of the effect of sound design in the film occurs when Harry rents a hotel room next to the couple who he was previously hired to tape. After listening to what sounds like a violent conflict going on in the coupleâs room, Harry catches himself once again overwhelmed with guilt. As Harry steps outside, we experience probably the most frightening part of the movie. The Murchâs score is specifically composed of the combination of an undulating and shrieking sound along with hard slams on piano keys that are overwhelming and unpleasant bringing to mind the âstabbyâ string score in Psychoâs (Hitchcock, 1960) famous shower murder scene. The combination of the altered, lower register piano notes, repetition of the shrill shriek, and noise of the television Harry turns up to evade the womanâs screams results in overwhelming cacophony of sound.
- sonically spectacular By layering up different sounds, Murch elevated the sound design into an art form Artistically, he wanted to do a soundtrack that was in keeping with the war The director wanted the film to involve a lot of realism, and he even shipped the patrol army boat that was used in filming from the Philippines over to his California ranch, to be used for Foley Apocalypse Now, which was the first feature film to be mixed in 5.1 surround sound - which is where 3 or more speakers are surrounding the listener to give a more realistic effect. Clip: Pause at 00:30 - can hear the surround sound to begin with Pause at 1:50 - âthis is the endâ - can see a man is having flashbacks of war - calming music seems ironic - âEmotional Signifierâ - helps to hypnotize audience into feeling like theyâre a part of the world of the film - also experience it with character - âSound & Imageâ by William Johnson Pause at 2:40 - helicopter sounds synchronise with the ceiling fan going round Pause at 5:55 - little sounds of the jungle inserted to represent his PTSD - we think weâre hearing them too Pause at 7:10 - music contrasts with calm music at beginning, lots of music appears to be layered up to signify his breaking point and his madness caused by the war
- Murch coined the term âsound designerâ on himself, as he found it to be the equivalent of an interior designer - as his Foley studio was âfour walls, a ceiling and a floorâ