AUDIO DUBBING (RESEARCH)
Audio dubbing is where in film they replace certain dialogue or noises to the scenes that have already been shot beforehand. 'When a foreign language is dubbed, the translation of the original dialogue is carefully matched to the lip movements of the actors in the film.' as said by Britannica (2018) shows that this is the most known occurrence of this technique in comparison to some of the others. Other instances of audio dubbing can be to add a sound effect that wasn't there in the footage or they couldn't gather whilst filming, a good example of this being a roar of a lion as they can't get close enough to record such a noise.
Having quality audio over footage is better than having quality footage over audio. As shown in this video by Rain dance Canada shows the difference between bad footage and bad audio and explains that people can still understand the story with good audio but find it hard to follow if the audio is terrible.This shows how important audio is in a film and how it can affect the audience's attention, bad audio making it harder for the audience to pay attention to the story as they can hardly hear the characters.
Foley is also another version of audio dubbing but focuses on the sound effects, linking back to the different instances of audio dubbing. Foley artists record the noises with various objects to make the correct noises, such as walking to space ships. Good Foley should never be able to be noticed by the audience as they will feel natural with the visual scenario that the audience is watching. Many of their sound affects are to fill the empty spaces of certain movement.'Foley effects are sound effects added to the film during post production (after the shooting stops). They include sounds such as footsteps, clothes rustling, crockery clinking, paper folding, doors opening and slamming, punches hitting, glass breaking, etc. etc. In other words, many of the sounds that the sound recordists on set did their best to avoid recording during the shoot.' as explained by Sound Ideas (2018) shows this fact to what the Foley artists gather and what the footage would have already had that could possibly need redoing to make it sound more professional and realistic to the audience.
Foley artists work in a singular room and can clearly see a screen which displays the footage that they are creating the sound effects for, being able to watch the footage and perform at the same time for the timing of the clips. Foley gets it's name from Jack Foley who was the first to come up with the common techniques for Foley, hence why it is spelt with a capital letter. There are many instances of Foley being digitally stored by a computer rather than being performed by a Foley artist but Foley artists can record much more realistic sounding noises than those of the computer. Foley artists can create noises for lots of different scenarios but still have proven to be the most reliable and realistic compared to the computer generated sound effects that are sometimes used in films.
Sound effects are important to use when the music is lower to enhance the scenario or can work alongside the music. Sound effects can be used in many different kinds of films with many different meanings, the most common genres to use sound effects frequently being action and horror; the third notably being comedy. A lack of sound effects in a scene, such as a fight scene, makes it feel awkward to the audience, not hearing the natural noises that they would with a fight in real life, this making the audience not enjoy the fight scene and feel like there was lack of effort no matter how good the choreography is. Sound effects can also enhance the audience's emotions, making the audience feel tension or suspense around a certain character or scene. This technique is most common in horror movies, making the audience feel uncomfortable with ambient sound effects that are natural sounding but hard for the audience to ignore. Sound affects can bring so much more to a film and can help tell the story to the audience without the characters having to say a word to the audience, the tone being presented to the audience through sound effects.
This video showing what Star Wars sounds like without sound effects shows how the audience feels when watching something that's missing audio where it should be, especially for a large franchise that the sound effects for certain objects have become recognisable to the audience; light sabers. Without that sound being there it sounds plain and boring to the audience. This is most likely to be noticed in a franchise where the audience have gotten used to the sounds, such as the light sabers in Star Wars or the pulsar sound performed by Iron Man. Without those sounds it becomes un-natural to the audience and can put them off of the scene, not getting the emotions that you wanted them to feel and making them fray away from watching the rest of the film or scene.
Audio dubbing is important as it makes the scenario more natural to the audience rather than being able to pinpoint something strange about it, this either being no sound where there should be or the sound affect not fitting properly. The audience will notice when something is out of place to them as sound effects can affect the audiences emotions and when they know that they should be feeling a certain way, they recognise when there's no audio to make them feel the emotions they believe they should be feeling.
References
Arcane Royale. (2018). Star Wars without sound effects | Episode I. [online] Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pfr4kwho6w [Accessed 9 May 2018}.
Encyclopedia Britannica. (2018). Dubbing | cinema. [online] Available at: https://www.britannica.com/technology/dubbing-cinema [Accessed 9 May 2018].
Great Big Story. (2018). The Magic of Making Sound | That's Amazing. [online] Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO3N_PRIgX0 [Accessed 9 May 2018].
Raindancecanada (2018). Audio Quality vs. Video Quality. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PLMiA18tBc [Accessed 9 May 2018].
Sound Ideas. (2018). What is Foley?. [online] Available at: https://www.sound-ideas.com/Page/what-is-foley.aspx [Accessed 9 May 2018].
The Beat: A Blog by PremiumBeat. (2018). Recording Foley and Sound Effects: The Fundamentals. [online] Available at: https://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/recording-foley-and-sound-effects-the-fundamentals/ [Accessed 9 May 2018].
