Sound
Sound includes diegetic sound, non-diegetic sound and the variety of ways in which aural elements (e.g. speech, music and noise) are used in relation to visuals.
How is sound use to relay information to the audience?All types of sound found in movies is there for a reason. You must analyse the use of sound and explain it's purpose.
Dialogue:
Background Music
How is sound use to relay information to the audience?All types of sound found in movies is there for a reason. You must analyse the use of sound and explain it's purpose.
Dialogue:
- spoken information
- keywords
- tone of voice
- give the film a sense of realism - for example laser blasts in a science fiction movie, traffic noise in a city scene
- Heighten audience response - enhanced sound of the kitchen knife being drawn at the beginnning of Scream (1996)
- Heighten Tension - Loud Ticking Clock
- Warn the audience - off screen sound effects
- Make the audience uncomfortable - strange unatural sounds
- Confirm a film convention - thunder & lightning
Background Music
- Used to create a sense of mood or atmosphere
- Direct attention to a particular aspect of the action
- Suggest a particular time period
- Used to build tension in a horror film
- Silence followed by a loud noise is a common convention of a horror film
- We are not accustomed to silence so it is a strange sensation for audiences