sound effect
Sound effects are the plaster mask used to breathe life into hollow fiction. Gunshots and monster roars never actually occur, they are simply pasted onto the footage to inundate the audience's mind with illusions. In production, the trouble of capturing real sounds is forgone, so someone in a studio pounds flour and vegetables to create an 'explosion.' The effect may last only a brief moment, but the audience's willingness to endure infinite loops is absolute. Silence offers no currency in the realm of sound design, where the audio illusionists proudly peddle their wares.