FILM SOUND

• Always be aware that sound is used as a storytelling device to create a mood, idea, emotion, or atmosphere.

• The transition from silent to sound, first considered a novelty, was difficult for many silent film stars.

• In the 1920s, sound on disc and sound on film were developed.

• During the late 1920s new sound techniques were being established. These techniques include off-screen, overlapping, and dubbed sound.

• By the 1930s, in the United States, nearly all films were made with sound, and used sound on film.

• Booms (microphones on long poles) allowed for film sound to be recorded in a variety of environments.

• In the 1950s stereo sound was introduced.

• In the 1970s Dolby Stereo began its involvement with the motion picture industry.

• In the 1980s THX developed its sound system.

• In the sound mixing studio, a film's soundtrack is created.

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