my participation in the editing exhibit @ the museum of moving image of queens, ny

My experience in the editing exhibit was more elaborate than just looking at the cuts from shot to shot.  We looked at the sound edits of sound produced by Foley artists, musicians, and actors in the scene.  The background sound implemented to a shot has an effect whether it adds or takes away from a shot, can change the way an image is perceived.  We noticed how once music was added to the shot's audio that there was a clear reaction of distress in the scene by the actors and we, the viewers felt more involved in the scene.  Then we looked at the audio alone and it had a different effect on our perception of the scene.  Now when we looked at the scene, the scene was a background image without sound, the music was now the sole subject of our experience.

The technology used for sound enhancement has enhanced vastly.  Now we have Foley artists creating sound effects for actors and for objects that would normally make these sounds in an environment depicted in that given scene.  By making these fabricated sounds whether by breaking a celery stick to depict the sound of human bones breaking, or dropping a chair with potatoes tied to it to make the sound of a girl with heels jumping a couple feet, these effects trick our ears into thinking we are hearing what we are seeing and this gives us viewers a much higher quality experience in enjoying a particular production.  Sound pieces can be edited individually on the same platform visually.  The experience of film is more engaging than ever now that the qualities of color, sound and size definition have all been implemented and enhanced.  Although virtually unnoticed,  the moving image displays many hidden effects in the exhibition of its work that all but make the experience more desirable.

a still of our educator demonstrating the visual impacts of sound editing in a film. Here we are watching "the titanic" with the addition of various sound pieces and without them