Bela Balazs and the Sound of Film

Oh how my eyes have deceived and betrayed me! The blessing of sight and the ability to see visuals has dampened the auditory sense of hearing. Sound is so unique and so very important to all of us as filmmakers. Bela Balazs has a very interesting description of sound, but my favorite part to read was the sections on silence. If it were me, I wouldn't think of silence as the integral part of sound, I just haven't ever thought of it in this way. "We feel the silence when we can hear the most distant sound or the slightest rustle near us." This stuck with me through the whole article.

The other portion I found to be very interesting and important to the theory of sound is the education we can give to our ears. I myself will be doing this more often and will incorporate it into my future works. Balazs states that sound is more difficult to recognize that a visual and that our ears are actually more sensitive to sound differentiation. Pretty cool stuff in my opinion and it just makes me think that when we are working on our projects, sound should equally be as important as the visual.