A collection of collections, showcasing the sound design of feature films.
Diegetic sound (i.e. sound from an on-screen source, or sound in the reality of the scene) is world all its own – as these video essays demonstrate.
As part of her video series 1.000.000 Frames, Candice Drouet‘s engaging supercut collects sounds across the films of Stanley Kubrick:
Jacob T. Swinney cuts, slices, chops, and crunches together sights & sounds across Quentin Tarantino‘s filmography (warning: this one, while great, is also graphically, viscerally violent):
Little White Lies has a series of supercuts of the sounds (and sights) across directors’ bodies of work. From that collection, here is Luís Azevedo‘s supercut of sounds from the films of Pédro Almodóvar:
Also via Little White Lies and Luis Azevedo comes this supercut of sounds from the films of Paul Thomas Anderson:
This stunning promotion for A Quiet Place (2018) showcases the film’s sound design (via Amazon Prime Video):
Further Listening
Silence is as important as, if not more important than, any other sound in a film – here’s a roundup of explainers and tutorials on just how much there is to hear when there’s “nothing” to hear in film:
A roundup of video essays about sound design in feature films:
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