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Here are some books you can check out:
As an exercise, I would also recommend watching movies with good sound design and figure out how you would achieve a similar sound on your own.
Best of luck to you!
In the Blink of an Eye
The Conervasations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film
Audio-Vision
I'll add more later if I can think of others I've read but do not own.
Interaction Design
Interior Design
Landscape Architecture
Lighting Design
Product Design
Product Design
Sound Design
Urban Design
* Cities for People by Jan Gehl
Web Design
you write the film, it is your decision how the audio of the film will sound. "movie realism" does not necessarily need realism at all. the viewers will expect to here some kind of degradation of the movie very similar to old cassette tape or something like this. the emotional response of the viewer should be more important than realism just for realism's sake, imo.
the video linked is pretty realistic, but you might want to play with the balance between the amount of degradation and the intelligibility of the played back sound - just like our memory can be very selective of what we remember can be very specific the playback could be "washed out" and somewhat unspecific for some sounds while certain "key sounds" remain much clearer.
i can highly recommend getting a copy of michel chions book "audio-vision" - it has a lot of great thoughts on sound for film and especially on the diegesis of sounds and "semi-diegetic" sounds like radio or telephone sounds in film.
in my opinion, there is a lot of potential in using these kinds of sounds in a movie - you can really establish a lot just by changing the sound perspective:
e.g.: you can hear the sound as it would play in the room (with degradation of the film recording + reverb perspective of the room it plays in) and then have it change to a "direct perspective" -- how the sound would have been for someone who is present at the recording of the video -- which would for most viewers/listeners have a strong effect of suggesting that you change from simply "watching a film" to actively "remembering" / from "outside" of the protagonist to the inside -- just by simple sound perspective changes.
Michel Chion's Audio-Vision is about as definitive a book as we're likely to get about the use of sound in film and its analysis. There's an edition with a foreword by Walter Murch that I recommend. These two writings by Murch are also good tools to have in your arsenal. David Sonnenschein's book on Sound Design will add even more robustness to your analytical ability.
On The Track, by Fred Karlin is an awesome book, and even though is kind of expensive, it's definitely worth its price tag!
I would also recommend Lalo Schiffrin's book about Music Composition for Film and TV
http://www.amazon.com/Music-Composition-Film-Television-Scoring/dp/0876391226
Another book that I find essential is Audio vision, by Michel Chion
http://www.amazon.com/Audio-Vision-Sound-Screen-Michel-Chion/dp/0231078994
Also, Unheard Melodies, by Claudia Gorbman
http://www.amazon.com/Unheard-Melodies-Narrative-Film-Music/dp/0253204364
edit: Added 2 more books