Alfred Hitchcock – Sound – Film – and New Media
23 Nov
“If it’s a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.”
- Alfred Hitchcock | Check out the Alfred Hitchcock Masterpiece Collection
I disagree with Alfred Hitchcock.
I think just the opposite is true. Sound is 95% of any great video or film. Sound is a passive medium. You can be looking at anything while you listen. Sound is the first sense that we use in the womb. We heard our mother’s voice months before we ever saw her.
The playground of sound is the theater of the mind.
Sound is all but everything in a movie, tv show, or internet video. If you have a great HD quality picture and crappy sound – you will perceive the image quality to be low. The reverse is true. If you have a 320×480 compressed video image with world class audio – the perceived quality of the image will be high.
Do YOU agree with my 95% statement or with Alfred? Let me know your thoughts.
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