What is a film score and why is it used?
Film scores are the music that is made specifically to accompany the film. This is used in order to give more personality to the films atmosphere. The score is also used to 'tell' the audience how to feel in hat part of the film, for example during a sad part of a film the music will be more depressing in order to invoke emotion from the viewers.
What are foley sound effects and why are they used?
Foley sounds are used to recreate sounds made by people and animals on screen that weren't picked up clearly by the microphone on set. By recreating these sounds and using them to replace the prerecorded sound effects, it makes the sound clearer to hear and overall more believable.
What is ARD and why is it used?
Similar to foley sound, ARD is the act of replacing dialogue in a prerecorded video. As with the foley sounds, not all sounds are picked up clearly by the mic on set, so ARD allows the actor's or actresses's to 're-do' their lines for a clearer and more professional final cut.
What is the art of sound design?
Sound design is used when you need to create sound for something that doesn't exist. For example the sound effect for the lasers used in 'Star Wars' were created with a plastic cup attached to the top of a slinky and letting the other end hit the floor. The noise created sounded unlike anything else and so fit the Sci-Fi setting perfectly.
