So I finally got a chance to listen to the interview with Jen Ralston, from The Wire, and I really enjoyed the interview. There was some things that she talked about that I had simply never thought about before, like portraying silence in a show or movie is done by having sounds that would usually be quiet not by having silence. I had honestly never thought about it, but every quiet scene in a movie or tv show that I can think of does this instead of having actual silence, even if it is just a bird chirping. I also thought it was really interesting that The Wire doesn’t really use music cues. I think they definitely use them more in the second season than in the first, but that might have something to do with different characters (for example the music in the bar that dock workers hang out at). I am definitely going to be listening to the sounds in tv shows differently from now on, especially in The Wire.