THE FILM SOUND AND MONTAGE

The Film Sound and Montage



The Film Sound and Montage

History of cinema

From the beginning filmmakers set out to film, so precarious in its infancy, it seems possible in the real world. Between the first and main objectives of the pioneers, was always to get the sound and color. In 1896, less than a year after the presentation of the unit moved, Edison patented and its relations, combining mechanics with the photographic film. From the first moments, as told elsewhere on this website, the music was performed live at the screen. Specialized people, including 'the explainer', recounted what happened and using gadgets made noises, wind, storms, and other songs of birds, which were used to better understand the language of silent images. The sound increases the impression of reality. Continuity gives the film soundtrack. A mechanism to achieve unity (Atkinson, 2007, 22),

History

Prior to talkies and there was a sound in the cinema. The filmmakers and designers took care of it, because the cinema is born with will sound. In the first short film actors and actresses appearing on dancing, the audience does not hear the music, but can observe their movements. Moreover, once r o films were shown in silence. The Lumpier brothers in 1897 hired a saxophone quartet to accompany their sessions at your local cinema in Paris and were worth composers such as Saint-Saens, who composed scores to accompany a film. Musicians and composers had in the film business moved a source of income. Not only the music sounds and had a place in accompanying silent films, so some special machines available to exhibitors to make sounds, storms or chirping of birds. It is true that this system was only possible in large halls in cities and more affluent public, and hardly could be seen in towns and remote locations. All were valid instruments to make music in the cinema but the piano (and piano player) was often the most desired (Austin, 1962, 77).

Some experiments have shown that sound waves could be converted into electrical impulses. In the time it was able to record on film this soundtrack, it was possible to adjust the sound to the image, and thus make sound films. Thomas Alva Edison, one of the inventors of the cinema, had managed to record the human voice in his phonograph in 1877. It was not the first, as charged on the progression Muybridge galloping horse in 1972. These two precursors form the basis for further inventions. In the case of film, the problem will not be achieved cost-effectively troubleshoot and effective until after the First World War will be the synchronization of sound and image (Beer, 2007, 101).

In 1893, the French physicist Dement invented what was called picture talking. Charles Path, one of the pioneers of cinema, combined phonograph and cinema, coming to make a 1900 movie sung. And at the same time, Léon Gourmont developed scoring system similar films, which appeared in the Paris Universal Exhibition of ...