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1. SOUND EFFECTS IN
FILM PRODUCTION
Muhammad Rawaha Saleem
ecHaaR Studio
Lecture #6

2. What Is Sound?
■ Sound is important in a production. Different aspects of sound enhance the characters
and the story. Sound is edited into the movie so it is coherent and comprehensible
within the movie.
■ Sound in a movie includes music, dialogue, sound effects, ambient noise, and/or
background noise and soundtracks. Some sort of sound is always used to enhance the
movie experience.

3. Music
■ Imagine no music in a movie. Certain scenes, like the beginning credits, would have
dead air. The movie would seem like it was missing something. Music is a very
important element for a movie. In the silent movie period, music was played
throughout the whole movie. A film score is the music for a movie. The film score is the
music at the beginning of the movie when the credits are rolling, and it sets the
atmosphere for the movie.
■ Music is also played at critical points during a movie. Have your emotions ever been on
edge during a suspense thriller when a certain piece of music is played at different
points of a movie? Does your adrenaline start going and your heart start to beat faster
during these points of the movie, when you hear that piece of music, because you
know something is going to happen? If these situations have occurred to you when
watching a movie, how would the movie experience have changed if music was not
part of it?

4. Dialogue
■ Dialogue is defined as a conversation between two or more people in a movie. In
addition, a movie could have a monologue where a character is speaking out loud
when he or she is alone. A character, for example, may contemplate the pros and cons
of taking some form of action in a monologue.
■ A movie can also have voice-over narration. Voice-over narration is when a character is
explaining what has transpired in a movie and why. Dialogue, monologue, and voice-
over narration progresses the story of the movie.
■ What would a movie be without dialogue? Even 90 to 100 years ago, there were silent
movies with no audio dialogue, but dialogue cards were used, and background music
set the tone of the scene. Take a look at the following example of a scene with and
without dialogue.

5. Sound Effects
■ Any sound, other than music or speech, artificially reproduced to create an effect in a
dramatic presentation, as the sound of a storm or a creaking door.
■ Sound effects are most often added into the movie post production. Many times when
filming a scene with multiple actions going on at the same time, such as dialogue,
sword fighting and other background action, sound effects are added post production
to make the effect louder.

6. Ambient Noises (Background Noise)
■ Ambient noises are background noises that are in a room, a house, outside, or any given
location.54 Every location has distinct and subtle sounds created by its environment.
Ambient noises are types of sound effects.
■ As an example to experience what ambient noises are, stand in a room alone and make
absolutely no noise at all. The room noises that you hear are ambient noises. A room in an
older house would have more ambient noises than a newer home. Also, depending on the
neighbourhood, you would have outside ambient noises depending on a location. The
following are examples of ambient noises: wildlife, wind, rain, running water, thunder,
rustling leaves, distant traffic, aircraft engines, machines operating and air conditioning.
■ Background noise gives the movie more realism. A movie character is running through a
wooded area at night. This scene would lack any suspense if there were no ambient noises.
■ The sound of the coins in the pouch is very important sound because it makes a sound as
though there are a lot of coins in the pouch. For this effect, the ambient noise would have to
be added in post-production, because that sound would not be able to be heard when
filming the scene.

7. Sound Track
■ A soundtrack is an audio recording created or used in film production or post-
production.

8. Basic functions of Lights in Film
Production
■ Lecture #7