Sonic Subjectivity and Auditory Perspective in Ratatouille

Using examples from Ratatouille, this article illustrates how sound can be used to create identification with characters through an auditory perspective. This auditory perspective is created through reinforcing or contradicting the on-screen image with microphone placement to create distance, loudspeaker positioning to create location, digital signal processing effects to create environments, and subjective perspectives that position us as an insider or outsider, and which illustrate the internal subjectivity of characters.

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