Chion

I totaly belive in this article, Sound is one the most important elements of a film. I belive it makes it or breakes it. I don't care how great your film is visualy or if you have the best actors in hollwood if your sound is wrong, the film is a bust. I think that is why i have a problem with many indepent films that i see, the sound isn't there, diologe is fine but its the atomsphere that sound they didn't ad that makes it worthless. i find it weird that our ears regonize things quicker then our eyes but then i think of the airplan eingin in the sky, we hear the jet befroe we focus in with our eyes or the we hear the crack of a ball before the ball is acutaly hit. good sound will enhace the moment even though i like those who play againts that, but again a love secen if due to have is romatic score. sound to me fills up the emptyness that can not be filmed on location. sure you can recored diologe, but even then wind outside forces hider this and one must go to the studio and rerecorded diolge. but i don't belive in the first part when he talks about he desterbing images in persona, if you see something disterbing, as a nail driven in the hand of some one, it will still be visualy disterbing, but again, sound gives it the add shock value i so love. i like the pointthat he makes about film images is like a ventriloquist, we are we manipulate what a audance will see acording to our likings. as he talks about silent films i say sound still plays a toll, yes no diolge but when i watch a silent film i asoate sertain parts with what i know that sound would of made as if where on screen. pluss more so there was usually a musical score, so that again picked up the empty sapace. i belvie that sound has become to familure. we are use to what a pucnh should sound like or a kiss or even a car. i want to hear unusal sounds something fresh new. but i belive the normal viewing audance wounld excetp it. to take a film that scared the shit out of me mearly becasue of sound and not imagery was the excorist(SP!) i saw that film long ago and if i would watch it today, it didn't freak me out for the makeup or the green pea soup that shot out of a possed little girl. the sounds, moans, vocies, music, in that film more it or less scared the crap out of me. and i am not that easy to scare, in that film if the sounds would not of been so amazing it would proably not of done so well. This read was very ture to how i feel about sound and gave good insight to things i haven't thought about. as the thunder rolls at 1/48 in am i must turn my cpu off. so good night and good luck.