THE IMPORTANCE OF SOUND IN FILMS.

In early years in the silent films, the images being shoots in films on screen where supported by a piano player, organ or even an orchestra, the sound establishes all kinds of moods for the viewers and that might even lead the whole atmosphere of a film, driving its narrative.
A separate and synchronized sound track was introduced by Warner Bros in 1927 with the movie called The Jazz singer, also during that time there were also other innovations like color and widescreen, sound.
Music has always been seen as a part of films for they where not meant to be watched in total silence. I think that movies are about portraying segments of life and existence , in which the environment always consist of sounds.
Nowadays movies industry gains huge profits from sales of movie soundtracks, and the importance of music is evident in nearly every single one of today’s movies: A good example is in Celine Dion’s Titanic title song became number one in many countries all around the world having its share in making it the one of the most profitable film of all times. And when watching movie trailers, very frequently they includes a list of the bands playing on the soundtrack.

A third use of sound could be a speech, in which language can be used in different ways, like in a conversation between characters (which means dialogue), as an inner monologue or voices inside somebody’s head. Or speech can be used from a narrator’s point of view having its origin not in the present tense of the film. Speeches definitely seems to be most observed by an audience, still it leaves the director many choices and is highly characteristic: accents, stuttering, high or deep voices, etc.

The Chronicles of Narnia.

Hi guys, today I am going to talk about this fantasy movie released in 2005 directed by Andre Adamson. This film was coproduced by Walden Media and Walt Disney Pictures. The main actors of this film, are Edmund, Peter, Susan. The first movie was released in 2005, the second movie Prince Caspian in 2008. According and copied from Wikipedia It was the best selling DVD in North America in 2006 taking in $332.7 million that year. The adaptation of this film bas based in UK Great Britain, when the director saw that Harry Potter and the philosopher had a success. The film had a great success wining an Oscar for best make up.In 2001 Walden Media had the rights for The Chronicles of Narnia. The photography of this film began on 2004. The filmmakers had asked permission to bring in twelve reindeers to New Zealand. also, ten wolves and wolf hybrids were allowed in for filming in Auckland according to wikipedia.
The soundtrack of this movie was composed by Harry Gregson-Williams. He putted some songs such as Can't Take It In by Imogen Heap, Wunderkind by Alanis Morissette and Winter Light by Tim Finn.
The soundtrack was recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, England, and in Los Angeles, CA.
The soundtrack received two Golden Globe award nominations: "Best Original Score" and "Best Original Song" (for "Wunderkind").
according to wikipedia.
We can see that in this movie there is a lot of visual effects such as CGI effects in the backgrounds, the animals with human faces or the doubles in the wars.
Narnia opened with $23 million USD in 3,616 theatres on its opening day (December 9, 2005), averaging $6,363 per location. The film took in a total of $65.5 million on its opening weekend.
The worldwide total was $744.7 million as of July 30, 2006. From wikipedia

Talkies.

The talkies are films in which includes dialogues, music or other types of sound. In Hollywood talkies had a profound impact in technology used to play or record audio material. Prior to talkies, silent films were accompanied to live orchestras that were played in the theaters. The thought of talking on movies are because the viewers want to concentrate on the scenes and the dialogues of the film.
In 1900s there were attempts to reproduce sounds in films. The pioneers had to face many problems due to sound films. At first one of them was the synchronize the recording in films, was very challenging because of the devices that to use for back audio to be display with the movie. After years they used a sound on a disc technology, which made more easier to developed sound in films, in was called vitaphone. The first talkie with full length was called The Jazz singer. Many people at the beginning were complaining about talkies. Later on orchestras got unsuccessful and theaters stopped hiring them all over the world.

VITAPHONE.

The vitaphone was a sound film process that was used for he fist time in 1926, and produced by Warner Bros. This was also known as the sound on disc process in films. The disc was played while the film was being presented to the viewers. Talkies used this process, one of them was The Jazz Singer. This terms derives from a Latin and Greek word, which means living and sound. Wrner Bros introduced this process with film shorts recorded inBrooklyn. It was also release of the silent film Don Juan, which also included in that time a classical musicians. According to Wikipedia, the Vitaphone worked with normal projectors that were equipped with a turnable and reproduce rwith a fader, amplifier and loudspeaker system.

AVATAR.

This science fiction film was released in 2009 by James Cameron. This film started in 2006, by making the first script of alliens, which now are the characters of Avatar. According to Wikipedia, they tell us that in the script it includes 1000 vocabulary words and wit 30 invented words by Cameron. Cameron hired Jordu Schell to help him with the designs of the Navi ans some other sculptures. This film has a lot of special effects and the CGI effects, specially in doubles, the designs of the features of the characters, the Navis and the background or scenarios. The visual effects of this movie were created with the help of Weta Digital.
While making this film, they had created different parts in which includes different support and help of different kind of people that could take care of their departments, which includes the flora, fauna and pandora departments. That means that they were well organized in that departments and it means that each of them were responsible of their parts. According to Wikipedia and copied from it: (Estimates put the cost of the film at about $280–310 million to produce and an estimated $150 million for marketing, noting that about $30 million in tax credits will lessen the financial impact on the studio and its financiers.A studio spokesperson, said that the budget "is $237 million, with $150 million for promotion, end of story.), which means that this film is one of the most expensive comparing to other movies. This film was experienced by a small book in which the director read when he was kid and it shares themes with the films At Play in the Fields of the Lord, The Emerald Forest, and Princess Mononoke, which feature clashes between cultures and civilizations. We can see that the whole movie includes special, visual, CGI and more effects that makes the movie be more unique, but according to many people opinion, this movie had no message. This film started being shot in 2007 in LA, Wellington and New Zealand, in which this film was combined with virtual and real environments. The director used photorealistic computer-generated character. The soundtrack of the movie was composed by James Horners, in which there were small parts of chorus singers.

GROWN UPS.

Each day we enjoy our life, our special moments. We enjoy in parties, in journeys, trips, shopping, eating, sleeping, dating etc.
This is the case of the four teammates that used to be while they were in high school training with their coach. This production of Dennis Dugan was released in June of 2010. This is a good comedian example that make us realize that each day that passes by, we can enjoy the best of our lives with our friends, it doesn't matter where we are or with whom we are, the only thing is that we have to enjoy our life each moment, as it would be our last day of our lives. The shooting of this film started in May 2009 in Massachusetts. The soundtrack of the film was composed by Rupert Gregson. According to Wikipedia, On August 19, 2010, the film has grossed $158,323,668 in the United States and Canada and $49,789,538 in other countries, with a worldwide gross of $208,113,20. I recommend to you this film because I am pretty sure that you will going to laugh a lot as I did, just for fun watching the trailer of this film, seems to be awesome.

SPECIAL EFFECTS.

Nowadays see enjoy spending some free time by watching good movies, and most of the time we get surprised, because of the quantity of special effects that the films have. The special effects are been used in films, television, theater, or entertainment. The special effects are divided into two. The optical and the mechanical effects. Special effects are being recognized as mechanical effects and in camera optical effects. The optical effects are the ones that are created photographically, like for being used in backgrounds or sets. The mechanical effects are the ones that are usually being used in real live performance or shooting, like for weather effects such as rain, snow, dust etc. Also this effects had been used for make up. According to wikipedia, in 1895, Alfred Clark created what is commonly accepted as the first-ever motion picture special effect. While filming a reenactment of the beheading of Mary, Queen of Scots, Clark instru Here we can take as an example 'Superman', where at a given moment we hear and we see part of a building collapse. Special effects are the effects that can really happen.
Special effects make movies more interesting and stir up our curiosity to understand how different scenes in the movie have been created.