The art of sound design for a moving picture rests basically on the work experience of pragmatists. This study tries to establish some guidelines on sound design: In an experiment 240 participants gave feedback about their emotions while watching two videos, each combined with four different audio tracks – music, sound effects, full sound design (music and sound effects) and no audio (as the comparative "null" version). Each participant viewed an audiovisual combination once to prevent habituation. The lead author employed a tablet-computer with the emoTouch -application serving as a mapping tool to provide information about the emotional responses. The participants moved a marker on the tablet's touch screen in a two-dimensional rating scale describing their felt immersion and suspense. A 3-factor-ANOVA showed significant increases of the median (and maximum) values of immersion and suspense when the participants listened to music and/ or sound effects. These values were always compared to the induced emotions of the participants who watched the videos with no audio at all. The video with full sound design audio tracks increased the median immersion values up to four times and the median suspense values up to 1.4 times. The median suspense values of the video with either music or sound effects dropped by 40 percent compared to the median suspense values of the null version. In contrast, the median immersion values were increased up to 3.6 times. The findings point to the importance of sound effects in an appropriate mix with music to enhance the viewers induced immersion and suspense.

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动画中声音设计的力量：针对iPad的emoTouch的经验研究

动态图像的声音设计艺术基本上取决于实用主义者的工作经验。这项研究试图建立一些声音设计准则：在一个实验中，有240名参与者在观看两个视频时给出了有关他们的情绪的反馈，每个视频都包含四个不同的音轨-音乐，音效，完整的音效设计（音乐和声音效果），并且没有音频（作为比较的“空”版本）。每个参与者观看一次视听组合以防止习惯。主要作者使用了带有emoTouch应用程序的平板电脑作为映射工具，以提供有关情绪反应的信息。参与者以二维等级在平板电脑的触摸屏上移动了一个标记，描述了他们的沉浸感和悬念感。当参与者听音乐和/或声音效果时，三因素方差分析显示沉浸和悬念的中值（和最大值）显着增加。始终将这些值与观看视频时完全没有音频的参与者的诱发情绪进行比较。具有完整音效设计音轨的视频将沉浸感的中值提高了四倍，将悬念中值提高了1.4倍。与空版本的悬念中值相比，带有音乐或声音效果的视频的悬念中值下降了40％。相反，中值浸入值增加到3.6倍。研究结果指出，声音效果与音乐进行适当混合以提高观看者的沉浸感和悬念感非常重要。