In movies and other audiovisual media there are are voices, and then everything else. In every audiomix, the precence  of a human voice instantly sets up a hierarchy of perception.  

The level and presence of the voice have to artifically enhanced over the sounds, in order to compensate for the absence of the landmarks that in live biaural conditions allow us to isolate the voice from ambient sounds.  

In production mixing is really the taking of voices in most cases and the other noises are reduced as far as possible.  

The Voice in Cinema is highly recommended. The book  is  available at Internet book stores as  Amazon books   

• David Lynch
• The Films of Jacques Tati 

• "Chion is a poet in theoretician's clothing" 

- Claudia Gorbman writes about Michel Chion

• Book Review: Michel Chion, Audio-Vision (Escom Newsletters)   

- by Nicola Phillips Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge
 
• Michel Chion´s Terminology

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