I'm trying to understand a creative decision and could use some input / opinions.
Try to imagine a couple of scenes in a movie. Two different identical soundtracks except in one we hear the natural sound or has foley added to recreate them. The other no natural sound / foley. How are you affected by the difference. I realise there could be a lot of "it depends", please feel free to expand on that.
I've tried watching a few popular TV series and paying attention to this in movies. There's very obvious scenes where the nat sound is 90% of the scene, the twig breaking in the dark forest, gun shots in a murder scene. My issue is the more mundane and less obvious scenes e.g. people walk out of building onto busy street, get into car and drive off. We have some music so the audio is not silent, should we hear the nat sound, the traffic noise, the car door opening and closing. If we do or don't how does it change the feel of the scene?
For those who are wondering why I'm asking this question. During the shoot the only time audio was recorded was when dialog was being spoken so I have quite a mixed bag and I'm doing my best to at least keep it consistant accross cuts in the one scene. Keeping it consistant over the whole movie is another matter so I'll end up with some scenes with nat sound / foley and some without.
So far my brain is not registering a big difference between scenes with and without the nat sound (apart from the obvious place where it is vital to the story) but I'm too close to the production to trust my own responses.
Bob.
Try to imagine a couple of scenes in a movie. Two different identical soundtracks except in one we hear the natural sound or has foley added to recreate them. The other no natural sound / foley. How are you affected by the difference. I realise there could be a lot of "it depends", please feel free to expand on that.
I've tried watching a few popular TV series and paying attention to this in movies. There's very obvious scenes where the nat sound is 90% of the scene, the twig breaking in the dark forest, gun shots in a murder scene. My issue is the more mundane and less obvious scenes e.g. people walk out of building onto busy street, get into car and drive off. We have some music so the audio is not silent, should we hear the nat sound, the traffic noise, the car door opening and closing. If we do or don't how does it change the feel of the scene?
For those who are wondering why I'm asking this question. During the shoot the only time audio was recorded was when dialog was being spoken so I have quite a mixed bag and I'm doing my best to at least keep it consistant accross cuts in the one scene. Keeping it consistant over the whole movie is another matter so I'll end up with some scenes with nat sound / foley and some without.
So far my brain is not registering a big difference between scenes with and without the nat sound (apart from the obvious place where it is vital to the story) but I'm too close to the production to trust my own responses.
Bob.