Sound in Cinema: How Illusions Are Created

It may seem that cinema audiences hear real sounds, but that's not quite the case. Filmmakers create an artificial world on screen with its own geography, characters, and plot line. And this world doesn't sound on its own; this illusion... is created by the sound engineer. The captivating story of sound creation for films is told by a direct participant in the production process - sound engineer Elena Maslova. She reveals the secrets of the sound design in iconic films. You will learn why in the film ‘The Thief of Bagdad’ the bank is robbed to the music from the ballet ‘The Nutcracker’, and why Robert Bresson chose Mozart for his famous film ‘The Mass’. For the spaceship in ‘Kin-dza-dza’, 80 versions of the sound were recorded, and Chewbacca from ‘Star Wars’ speaks with the voice of a bear cub. But the main discovery that the reader will make is: if sounds disappear from the film, so will the audience's emotions.
The book is aimed at everyone passionate about cinema, as well as students of specialized universities and future sound engineers.