The Use of Sound Design in Creating Fiction
The crowd rustles, the jostling for seats rises and then slowly abates. Lights begin to dim, and a quiet stillness of anticipation palpably subdues the audience. After darkness and silence fills that space of minute eternity, sounds in orchestra escape into wanting ears and thus a sojourning through story, in the form of theatre, begins its irrepressible rein. Regardless of technology, or venue sophistication; regardless of social status or currently perceived historical precipice; regardless of the tale itself, the unfolding of events wraps the participants in a warm blanket of pure human familiarity and leads them into a new mythical now. There are many assets utilized to perpetuate this all …show more content…
In the heat of battle, during the apotheosis of the climax, or during the calmest breath, unexpected punctuated silence can be deafening. Continual sound is the expression of life progressing from one event to another. Silence in the midst of life's progressions produces an unexpected pause. Properly placed, this pause can shake and stop the movement of reality. A baby crying, then abrupt unexplained cessation, can make life stop. The whistle of a bomb falling, followed by emptiness, produces puzzlement and inquiry unsatisfied. The subtler the silence the better. A husband and wife arguing intensely unexpectedly stopping and saying nothing, but looking each into the others tear filled eyes can retch a heart from the most solid mooring. Thus, the intended consequence of fictional presentation may aptly produce its …show more content…
Surprise, expectation, and silence, while simple applications, properly related can replace reality with a disparate designed fiction. Theater is so much more than the action and recitation of lines from a stage. Each audience member brings their own baggage when they enter the venue. Sound design is one avenue by which that baggage can be opened, unloaded, rearranged, and then repackaged again. Never is this repackaging realized until the applause dwindles to a decaying echo, the curtain come down as a wall standing erect, the doors are opened as entrances from the escaped, and patrons chat fervently reliving a mutual sojourning successfully
The crowd rustles, the jostling for seats rises and then slowly abates. Lights begin to dim, and a quiet stillness of anticipation palpably subdues the audience. After darkness and silence fills that space of minute eternity, sounds in orchestra escape into wanting ears and thus a sojourning through story, in the form of theatre, begins its irrepressible rein. Regardless of technology, or venue sophistication; regardless of social status or currently perceived historical precipice; regardless of the tale itself, the unfolding of events wraps the participants in a warm blanket of pure human familiarity and leads them into a new mythical now. There are many assets utilized to perpetuate this all …show more content…
In the heat of battle, during the apotheosis of the climax, or during the calmest breath, unexpected punctuated silence can be deafening. Continual sound is the expression of life progressing from one event to another. Silence in the midst of life's progressions produces an unexpected pause. Properly placed, this pause can shake and stop the movement of reality. A baby crying, then abrupt unexplained cessation, can make life stop. The whistle of a bomb falling, followed by emptiness, produces puzzlement and inquiry unsatisfied. The subtler the silence the better. A husband and wife arguing intensely unexpectedly stopping and saying nothing, but looking each into the others tear filled eyes can retch a heart from the most solid mooring. Thus, the intended consequence of fictional presentation may aptly produce its …show more content…
Surprise, expectation, and silence, while simple applications, properly related can replace reality with a disparate designed fiction. Theater is so much more than the action and recitation of lines from a stage. Each audience member brings their own baggage when they enter the venue. Sound design is one avenue by which that baggage can be opened, unloaded, rearranged, and then repackaged again. Never is this repackaging realized until the applause dwindles to a decaying echo, the curtain come down as a wall standing erect, the doors are opened as entrances from the escaped, and patrons chat fervently reliving a mutual sojourning successfully