{"id":178616,"date":"2021-02-15T15:16:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/gravity-and-the-line-between-realistic-and-believable-sound-design\/"},"modified":"2021-02-15T15:16:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T12:16:00","slug":"gravity-and-the-line-between-realistic-and-believable-sound-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/gravity-and-the-line-between-realistic-and-believable-sound-design\/","title":{"rendered":"#&#8217;Gravity&#8217; and the Line Between Realistic and Believable Sound Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2496b02e975\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2496b02e975\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/gravity-and-the-line-between-realistic-and-believable-sound-design\/#Who_made_this\" >Who made this?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/gravity-and-the-line-between-realistic-and-believable-sound-design\/#More_Videos_Like_This\" >More Videos Like This<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#&#8217;Gravity&#8217; and the Line Between Realistic and Believable Sound Design<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.7.9--><\/p>\n<p id=\"block-ef39d270-a779-4fdb-93a8-9ec87a31985d\"><em>Welcome to <strong>The Queue<\/strong> \u2014 your daily distraction of curated video content sourced from across the web. Today, we\u2019re watching a video essay about how the sound design of \u2018Gravity\u2019 balances realism with what \u201cfeels real.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" id=\"block-c4d05d38-52e3-42f8-8498-9277fd8f4a79\"\/>When it comes to sound in cinema, what <em>feels<\/em> real and what <em>is <\/em>real are not always the same thing. <\/p>\n<p>A kind of crass but effective example is the <em>T. rex<\/em> roar in <em><strong>Jurassic Park<\/strong><\/em>. Scientists have good reason to believe that the iconic bellow immortalized in Steven Spielberg\u2019s film is not <em>actually<\/em> what dinosaurs sounded like. But when you\u2019re watching the film, it <em>feels <\/em>right. And ultimately, in those moments of terror and awe, a fabrication serves the story best. <\/p>\n<p>This dichotomy is more nuanced and a little stickier in <strong>Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n<\/strong>\u2018s <em><strong>Gravity<\/strong><\/em>. The film begins with title cards that remind us there is no sound in the vacuum of space. What follows is a film filled with creative negotiations to this narrative obstacle. While it\u2019s all too easy to wag a dogmatic finger at the screen decrying the sacrilege of scientific fact, the reality is that, in fiction, space doesn\u2019t <em>have <\/em>to sound like space.<\/p>\n<p>Not only that but as the video essay below explains in greater detail, to dismiss <em>Gravity<\/em>\u2018s noisy space loopholes ignores a broader and more fascinating push-pull in sound design. Namely: a tension between <strong>environmental fidelity <\/strong>(what we hear reflecting what we see) and <strong>rhetorical intelligibility<\/strong> (what we hear clearly deploying narrative information). <\/p>\n<p>The moments in <em>Gravity <\/em>where the subjective overrides the spatial are subtle and fascinating, from changing point-of-audition to a score that smuggles in sound effects. All told, <em>Gravity <\/em>is a marvellous case study of the difference between realism and what feels \u201creal\u201d in sound design.<\/p>\n<p id=\"block-7bea6721-0bc5-4685-b8bb-9a638666ffc4\">Watch \u201c<strong>Sound and Silence in Gravity: Fidelity vs Intelligibility<\/strong>\u201c:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sound and Silence in Gravity: Fidelity vs Intelligibility\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/505465474?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"700\" height=\"395\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"block-3e70ef38-925e-47ea-b20c-b98285b86f45\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Who_made_this\"><\/span>Who made this?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p id=\"block-839c096a-2881-4e76-aef1-4e01b79aa34f\">This video essay is by <strong>Jordan Schonig<\/strong>, who holds a Ph.D. in Cinema and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Studies from the University of Chicago. They are a Film Studies lecturer and make video essays on, what else, film. You can follow Schonig on Vimeo <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user70566677\">here<\/a>. And you can follow them on Twitter <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JNSchonig\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"block-85c5c651-dca9-4ab9-862e-cac05989163e\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"More_Videos_Like_This\"><\/span>More Videos Like This<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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