Writing the short film 3th - Part 18. Cuốn sách này chủ yếu giúp tham khảo về phương pháp viết kịch bản, phim ảnh, video và các nhà làm phim video - những người đang phải đối mặt với sự cần thiết của việc viết một kịch bản tường thuật ngắn sao cho hay, mạch lạc, nội dung phim được truyền tải hết đến người xem. | Visualization Strategies 109 MORE ON SOUND DESIGN AS COMPLEMENTARY TO VISUAL DESIGN As discussed in Chapter 3 sound is a critical storytelling tool. Whether the sound is synchronized directly related to the visuals hearing the sound of a door opening when we see the door open or is used asynchronously in contrast to the visual the overall pattern of the sound adds another dimension to the experience of the story. In this way the sound can be used to support an aura of realism arising out of the visuals or it can be used to create an alternate or multilayered view. The key is to use sound purposefully. Having used the visual dimension to tell your story to characterize and to create a sense of place you should view sound as yet another opportunity to tell your story even more powerfully. Sound can alter visual meaning it can also complement visual meaning. In Ken Webb s The Waiters sound does both. This film about the process of waiting moves through a variety of characters and settings a suburban commuter waiting for a train a woman waiting for a sign from above an actor waiting to be discovered a young man waiting to fly a young boy waiting for Santa Claus. The narrator explains in an amusing way why each is waiting. The reasons given range from the rational to the irrational. Nevertheless the visuals suggest that most of the characters get what they want particularly when their wish was irrational or supernatural. Consequently the surprise of seeing them get what they want no matter how preposterous is extremely funny. Webb ends the film with a low-angle single visual of a waiter reciting the items on a menu in an Italian restaurant. The shot makes up a quarter of the entire film. This has the effect of shifting our attention away from people waiting and wanting to people waiting on and offering. The result is to bring us back to earth. In The Waiters it is the sound track that explains the diversity of visuals linking them to one another. The narrator also tells
