From the course: Creating a Short Film: 08 Editing

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Utilizing room tone

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Utilizing room tone

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- [Man] If you've ever been on a film set or if you watched the sixth course in the series, you know that the sound recordist will always stop everyone after the scene is wrapped and force everybody to just stand there quietly so they can record something called room tone. Room tone is just the ambient sound of the space, basically the silence in a given area. Though, it's not really silence. Every space has its own unique acoustic signature. So as annoying as it is to stop everything for a minute on set, this is essential. Now, why is it essential? Because often when you're editing, there are gaps where you wanna stretch things out and let them breathe a little bit and then that leaves a little gap, a little space there. And amateurs will often just leave those spaces just silent or empty. But a space where people aren't talking is not the same thing as total silence. Good editors understands that gaps of pure silence interspersed with dialogue and room tone make the scene fill…

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