Quieter Than Silence: Difference between revisions

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If a scene, response or view is shown in total silence, often the audience may simply think the sound is out on their TV or movie theater. Having a background noise that is normally drowned out by foreground noise—a quiet wind, faint crickets chirping, etc. --is a marker to say "nothing is happening" to the audience. The [[Manga]] [[Unsound Effect]] ''shiiiiiiin''<ref>[[wikipedia:Tinnitus|Tinnitus?]].</ref> does the same thing. A visual of a tumbleweed blowing across the scene is used in Westerns, and nowadays mainly in comedies, to convey the same effect. A low rumbling is often also used, to simulate that sort of feeling a person gets in their ears in a dark, quiet room.