In filmmaking and television production, presence, also known as room tone, or simply room sound, is the "silence" recorded at a location or space when no dialogue is spoken. Presence is similar to ambience, but is distinguished by a lack of explicit background noise. Every location has a distinct presence created by the position of the microphone in relation to the space boundaries. A microphone placed in two different parts of the same room will record two distinct presences. This is because of the unique spatial relationship between the microphone and boundaries such as walls, ceilings, and floors, and other objects in a room. Presence is recorded during the production stage of filmmaking. It is used to help create the film sound track, where presence may be intercut with dialogue to smooth out any sound edit points. The sound track "going dead" would be perceived by the audience not as silence, but as a failure of the sound system. For this reason presence is normally recorded—like dialogue—in mono, with the microphone in the same position and orientation as the original dialogue recording. In the sound edit, presence occupies the same track as the dialogue to which it applies. See also Comfort noise

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Notable quotes

“Captain James T. Kirk: But one man can change the present.”
— Star Trek: The Original Series episode Mirror, Mirror (6 October 1967) by Jerome Bixby
“There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not casually reduce "that great past to a trouble of fools." For we need not feel the bitterness of the past to discover its meaning for the present and the future.”
— John F. Kennedy, Speech to a joint session of the Dail and the Seanad, Dublin, Ireland (28 June 1963)
“In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagined past.”
— Alan Moore, Watchmen
“We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.”
— Paul of Tarsus, 1 Corinthians 2:6 NIV
“Whereas before you dwelt in time and paid brief visits to the Now, have your dwelling place in the Now and pay brief visits to past and future when required to deal with the practical aspects of your life situation.”
— Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now.
“The present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.”
— Alfred North Whitehead, The Aims of Education (1929), p. 23

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Overview

In filmmaking and television production, presence, also known as room tone, or simply room sound, is the "silence" recorded at a location or space when no dialogue is spoken. Presence is similar to ambience, but is distinguished by a lack of explicit background noise. Every location has a distinct presence created by the position of the microphone in relation to the space boundaries. A microphone placed in two different parts of the same room will record two distinct presences. This is because of the unique spatial relationship between the microphone and boundaries such as walls, ceilings, and floors, and other objects in a room. Presence is recorded during the production stage of filmmaking. It is used to help create the film sound track, where presence may be intercut with dialogue to smooth out any sound edit points. The sound track "going dead" would be perceived by the audience not as silence, but as a failure of the sound system. For this reason presence is normally recorded—like dialogue—in mono, with the microphone in the same position and orientation as the original dialogue recording. In the sound edit, presence occupies the same track as the dialogue to which it applies. See also Comfort noise

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

In filmmaking and television production, presence, also known as room tone, or simply room sound, is the "silence" recorded at a location or space when no dialogue is spoken. Presence is similar to ambience, but is distinguished by a lack of explicit background noise.

Notable quotes

“Captain James T. Kirk: But one man can change the present.”
— Star Trek: The Original Series episode Mirror, Mirror (6 October 1967) by Jerome Bixby
“There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not casually reduce "that great past to a trouble of fools." For we need not feel the bitterness of the past to discover its meaning for the present and the future.”
— John F. Kennedy, Speech to a joint session of the Dail and the Seanad, Dublin, Ireland (28 June 1963)
“In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagined past.”
— Alan Moore, Watchmen
“We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.”
— Paul of Tarsus, 1 Corinthians 2:6 NIV
“Whereas before you dwelt in time and paid brief visits to the Now, have your dwelling place in the Now and pay brief visits to past and future when required to deal with the practical aspects of your life situation.”
— Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now.
“The present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.”
— Alfred North Whitehead, The Aims of Education (1929), p. 23

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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