ABSTRACT
Sound design is a serious secret weapon in selling people's visual cuts. It can hide or even motivate a cut. It's also another weapon in delivering pacing and rhythm to an edit. Sound is also capable of delivering believability and life to the environment surrounding the story, providing the subliminal clues that make an audience feel like they're in a real place, immersed in the story in a way that the picture alone can't do. It's a solid aural foundation that the sound team can build on when delivering the final sound design and mix. Sound design is inextricably linked to music. While score is eventually part of the process, for most of post, the music the editor employs is temp—borrowed from the soundtracks of other films and pressed into imperfect service until the talents of a composer deliver the final score that serves the film.
