I’m not going to lie being the horse & movie fanatic that I am, when I saw the list of movies that Ann Kroeber has worked on I was pretty excited. I only wish there was more time for her to discuss certain movies she’s worked on as well as the unique sounds or ways she came up with recording, like finding out that the sound of the ship sinking in “The Black Stallion”, which was one of my favorite movies as a kid, came from a toilet. Who would have thought? She seems like a really fun & interesting person to work with.
Something that she’d mentioned that really stuck with me or made me think of sound in a whole other way was how her husband Alan didn’t have that great of vision, so sound and his hearing was very much a way for him to know what’s going on around him. Overall the lecture inspired me to think about sound more when you’re watching a movie because like the man said in one of her clips, the sound effects are really what puts you in the movie like you’re literally there watching it first hand. I can also relate to this very much because of the fact that in my History of the Motion Picture class we’ve been watching lots of short movies that only have music playing and some nothing, pure silence with screens of captions now and then. Although it’s somewhat aggravating going from what were used to watching now to watch films of silence, it definitely makes you respect movies a lot more.
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