Reddit mentions of Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen

Big upvote for:

• http://filmsound.org/
  
• http://soundworkscollection.com/
  
• http://designingsound.org/
  
  Here are some books you can check out:
  
  
• http://amzn.com/0941188264
  
• http://amzn.com/0240812409
  
• http://amzn.com/0231078994
  
  As an exercise, I would also recommend watching movies with good sound design and figure out how you would achieve a similar sound on your own.
  
  Best of luck to you!

In the Blink of an Eye

The Conervasations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film

Audio-Vision

I'll add more later if I can think of others I've read but do not own.

Interaction Design

• About Face 3 by Alan Cooper
  
• Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge
  
• Designing Interfaces by Jenifer Tidwell
  
• Designing for the Digital Age by Kim Goodwin
  
• Making Things Talk: (2011) (2007) by Tom Igoe
  
  Interior Design
  
  
• The Decoration of Houses by Edith Wharton and Ogden, Jr. Codman
  
• Domino: The Book of Decorating by Deborah Needleman
  
• Design*Sponge at Home: A Guide to Inspiring Homes by Grace Bonney
  
• The Vintage/Modern Home by Katherine Sorrell
  
• The Fundamentals of Interior Design by Simon Dodsworth
  
  Landscape Architecture
  
  
• Landscape Architectural Graphic Standards by Leonard J. Hopper
  
• Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
  
• Landscape Graphics by Grant W. Reid
  
• Cities for People by Jan Gehl
  
• Design with Nature by Ian L. McHarg
  
  Lighting Design
  
  
• Stage Lighting Design by Richard Pilbrow
  
• The Architecture of Natural Light by Henry Plummer
  
• Painting With Light by John Alton
  
• Made of Light by Anthony Tischhauser
  
• Color, Environment and Human Response by Frank H. Mahnke & Rudolf H. Mahnke
  
  Product Design
  
  
• Sketching: Drawing Techniques from Product Designers by Koos Eissen
  
• Design for the Real World by Victor Papanek
  
• The Craftsman by Richard Sennett
  
• Mythologies by Roland Barthes
  
• Cradle to Cradle. Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough & Michael Braungart
  
  Product Design
  
  
• In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World by John Thackara
  
• The Experience Economy by B. Joseph Pine II & James H. Gilmore
  
• Universal Methods of Design by Bruce Hanington & Bella Martin
  
• Cradle to Cradle. Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough & Michael Braungart
  
• Mental Models by Indi Young
  
  Sound Design
  
  
• Sound Design: The Expressive Power of Music, Voice and Sound Effects in Cinema by David Sonnenschein
  
• Designing Sound by Andy Farnell
  
• Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen by Michel Chion
  
• The Sound Effects Bible by Ric Viers
  
• Sound Theory Sound Practice by Rick Altman
  
  Urban Design
  
  
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
  * Cities for People by Jan Gehl
  
• A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander
  
• The Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler
  
• The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch
  
  Web Design
  
  
• Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug
  
• HTML & CSS: Design and Build Web Sites by Jon Duckett
  
• The Principles of Beautiful Web Design by Jason Beaird
  
• Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS by Ben Frain
  
• Hardboiled Web Design by Andy Clarke
  

you write the film, it is your decision how the audio of the film will sound. "movie realism" does not necessarily need realism at all. the viewers will expect to here some kind of degradation of the movie very similar to old cassette tape or something like this. the emotional response of the viewer should be more important than realism just for realism's sake, imo.

the video linked is pretty realistic, but you might want to play with the balance between the amount of degradation and the intelligibility of the played back sound - just like our memory can be very selective of what we remember can be very specific the playback could be "washed out" and somewhat unspecific for some sounds while certain "key sounds" remain much clearer.

i can highly recommend getting a copy of michel chions book "audio-vision" - it has a lot of great thoughts on sound for film and especially on the diegesis of sounds and "semi-diegetic" sounds like radio or telephone sounds in film.

in my opinion, there is a lot of potential in using these kinds of sounds in a movie - you can really establish a lot just by changing the sound perspective:

e.g.: you can hear the sound as it would play in the room (with degradation of the film recording + reverb perspective of the room it plays in) and then have it change to a "direct perspective" -- how the sound would have been for someone who is present at the recording of the video -- which would for most viewers/listeners have a strong effect of suggesting that you change from simply "watching a film" to actively "remembering" / from "outside" of the protagonist to the inside -- just by simple sound perspective changes.

Michel Chion's Audio-Vision is about as definitive a book as we're likely to get about the use of sound in film and its analysis. There's an edition with a foreword by Walter Murch that I recommend. These two writings by Murch are also good tools to have in your arsenal. David Sonnenschein's book on Sound Design will add even more robustness to your analytical ability.

On The Track, by Fred Karlin is an awesome book, and even though is kind of expensive, it's definitely worth its price tag!

I would also recommend Lalo Schiffrin's book about Music Composition for Film and TV

http://www.amazon.com/Music-Composition-Film-Television-Scoring/dp/0876391226

Another book that I find essential is Audio vision, by Michel Chion

http://www.amazon.com/Audio-Vision-Sound-Screen-Michel-Chion/dp/0231078994

Also, Unheard Melodies, by Claudia Gorbman

http://www.amazon.com/Unheard-Melodies-Narrative-Film-Music/dp/0253204364


edit: Added 2 more books