SOUND MATCH

Matching two similar sounds. The sounds can be voices, sound iffects, natural sounds, rhythm or musical passages.

SOUND MATCH:
The sound of the Like shape matches, sound matches customarily cross "
welder soldering time and/or place and are a delight - or sometimes a
(top left) fright - to encounter. The two related sounds can in­
cuts to the sinuate a different meaning or spin the story ina different
sound ofthe
direction. Often the first sound - an innocent, everyday
dentist drilling
sound - is intensified, changed, 01' distorted by the sec-
(below).
ond sound. For example: The pop-pop-pop of children .,
playing war cuts to the real thing; the guiet chinking
Man on Wire
of car chains in the snow becomes the harsh staccato of
bottles moving through a processing plant; or the patter
of rain gradually morphs to the patter of applause. In
ApocalJpse Now Francis Ford Coppola cut from the whirr
of ceiling fan blades to the roar of helicopter blades.
Matching sound across a cut can connect the two
shots in an unexpected way and make the audience
laugh, wince, or seize up with fear. Viewers appreciate
sound matches and may never think of certain sounds
the same way again.

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