Research into Recording Ambient Sounds and Dialogue P1

What is Ambient sound?


Ambient sound is an atmospheric sound and noise pollution, ambient sound is an the background sound that you either see a in a clip or that has been added to make it look like its come from that object or subject. For example is you see a door open and you hear a creaking door sond then that would be ambient sound either its been added in or is really the sound of the door. Some rough cuts don't have much or any ambient sound as they either havent had to to be added and was not caught of the camera mic, so after a rough cut the ambient sound is normally added after. This is a useful thing to do as you can mute out the sound of the camera mic if it isn't what you want and add the sounds that you want ad the end because if you use the camera mic sound then it woild be muffled either by with or other nosie pollution..


Adding ambient sound after you have recoded the scene is useful as if you don't add it as ambient sound it would over play or loop over dialogue or other sound that you do want in the shot/scene and if there the sound overlapped other sounds that you wanted then it will be very difficult if not impossible to take out and pull apart the sounds from each other.

In the creation of Hunger Games the programme that was most used in the pre production as a programme called Avid. Avid media composer is the most widely use NLE for profession films and film editing.



This is a Jungle scene from Hunger Games. In this scene you hear many different sounds all mist that are jungle related but ofcourse it was not recordered during the actually filming of the film, it was pre recorded in the forest or a junbgle and then added it, this is called ambient sound. But then again the advantage of recording on set is that you get real sound and in some accocians it give it a better feel and more realistic vibe, it also saves adding it in during the editing process which could argue saves time. Some director like to use ambient sounds so they can minipulate what you show the audience and what the audience sees but some directors like using actually sounds from the shooting to make it more real.