SOUND

This is important to create the correct environment and emotions for the audience.

It is used to 

ₓ Simulate reality.

ₓ Help the creator create a mood among the audience

In films, the 3 following types of sound are important because:

Non-diegetic: This is the type of sound that characters cannot hear and is only heard the background. It sets the scene for the audience and creates the genre expected by the audience like suspense music for a thriller film, or happy, upbeat music for a comedy film.

Diegetic: This is the sound type that characters can hear like other character`s voices, explosions... this type of sound that can include the audience in conversations and make it more realistic

Contrapuntal sound: which is a way to confuse the audience, but also add mystery to the scene, like when someone is changing the radio in a tense situation.

These types of sound are important and form up the previous sounds:

🔽 DIALOGUE  This is the sound of people talking onscreen, normally when talking to each other.

There is also a dialogue called ADR, which is Additional Dialogue Recording and refers to dialogue recorded after shooting the movie. This is done when the dialogue has been damaged by other sounds that weren’t planned.

🔽 AMBIENT  This sound can also be called "natural sound" and describes the sound in the background and of the "Walla" (or the background crowd).

🔽 NARRATION  This is the sound of someone telling the story in the background.

🔽 SOUND EFFECTS (SFX) This is the sound that has been created for the film and can vary from the sound of the wind to noises an alien makes. Normally when filming, to create these sound effects, people create a Foley stage with props to create these different sounds.

In this video it shows the different props made to make different sounds in films.

🔽 SCORE This is the original music that is created for a film using musical instruments.