The importance of sound

We watched how behind the scenes of making a movie is important to focus on sound. sound is a sense they used in 'The village' to pre-warn the audience of the bad mysterious character. 

Music and sound is a very powerful tool, it's just there, it works, exists as part of the film. The audience doesn't particually think about the sound, meaning its best effective as a subconsious factor. When you watch the movie you don't realise its creating the realistic feelings.

"sound is his special effects"

When looking at thrillers that have no action in them, the sound is the highlight of the intense feeling the audience feels. 

in The village, it's one of the most important factors because the main character is partially blind, so the sounds are increased and they reflect her fear. They experiment with using scratching of nails and ear piercing metalic non-diagetic sounds. 

In the 6th sense, all the background noise made to create the presence of ghosts is layers of people crying, screaming, and whispering so its unreaconisable. This gave my group the idea of experimenting making our own different sounds to add to our animatic, and eventually our film.