How are sounds incorporated within a movie scene and how do they affect the movie mood (atmosphere) and meaning (understanding)?
IT
(Distorted painting scene):
The horror classic IT had its recent remake in 2017 and made a big impact for fans of the horror genre and the original film itself due to its updated form of the film with new use of CGI making the film have a different aspect for the audience as the 1990’s version IT shows usage of special FX makeup.
The scene being analysed is well-known in the remake, the distorted painting. This specific scene begins with the sounds of the villain's footsteps to build an ominous atmosphere, this use of diegetic sound begins to change the dynamic of the scene as tension is built as the audience and the character hear the distant footsteps approaching. This affects the mood as it builds a rigid atmosphere. Furthermore, the purpose of this is to allow the audience to gain a more personal feel to the actor as they also fear for the next outcome of the scene, allowing the audience to have a feel of schadenfreude as they gain a sense of relief they are not experiencing the actor's current situation. At the time mark of 1:27 (2) of the scenes clip, we see a visual close up shot of the lights beginning to flicker alongside a conventional sound effect of its flickers, deepening the dark atmosphere created, this is achieved through a hyper-real technique. It also enlightens the audience on the importance of the scene as they see a new villain in appear.
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Overall, the scene would not have been as effective upon the audience if it didn’t have the different uses of its heightened sound effects. Sound is a common conventional form of horror films being able to add more of a shock factor for its audience whilst keeping them more engaged.
Children of men
(Car scene):
Children of men is a dystopian film which features certain aspects to allow a sense of realism to the narrative and storyline through filming aspects of single camera use and sound incorporation to set the mood and tone helping to add to the drama/fantasy genre.
The specific scene of discussion in this report is the car scene mid-way the movie. This is a significant scene in the storyline. One main way this scene’s importance was achieved was through sound editing. Evidently, the background noise is levelled out by different layers of sounds, an example would be the cars radio music continuously playing in the background. This adds to the authenticity of the scene alongside the single camera use as this allows the visual and audio effects to achieve a more realistic experience for the audience as we gain a point of view being besides the character taking in what is happening at the location of the scene by the visuals.
In the same scene, one of the characters gets shot. As the bullet is fired the sound pierces the air by the use of synchronous sound effects. However, as the characters weren't close enough to the bullet to receive that piercing effect that is portrayed this shows use of a hyper real sound effect. The use of hyper-real sound effects for the bullet emphasises its value in the scene to add depth to the matter of one of the characters getting killed.
Stacey Dooley:
(Documentary)
Dooley begins to portray the new increase of young drug dealers across social media platforms in the UK. To raise awareness to the issue a documentary format is used, to further achieve enlightenment of the crisis certain aspects of sound use are incorporated.Through the use of non-diegetic music, a sinister tone is produced, this is to allow certain scenes to form tension where needed to build the on the mood and atmosphere. For example, when Dooley attended appointments made with the drug dealers’ suspenseful music was added to engage the audience. Therefore, the music is arguably necessary to help build the ambience by foreshadowing a darker scene ahead due to the danger behind drug dealing. Furthermore, where the music is applied an allowance of scenes bridging forms, therefore, from a more technical perspective editing is made easier as the scene can jump from one another according to the non-diegetic music.
In addition, the mood is played upon by usage of synchronous sounds that have been incorporated to heighten rigidity creating an emotional strain in the mood for a deeper engagement by the audience. This is evident through the non-diegetic hyper-real sound effects used to notify the audience of Dooley's messages. Thus, providing a build-up of the ambience as we as an audience share a similar reaction of shock to the messages received about the main matter of the documentary, young drug dealers over social media.
Overall, due to filming aspects the documentary would face some potential technical difficulties. These risks may include the need of subtitles due to the far proximity between the camera crew and those being interviewed based on the outdoor location for the covert observation. This altercation could also face the technical difficulty of interference with the audio of the conversational dialogue between the members being filmed due to windy weather or rain. However, as these aspects of difficulties are uncontrollable this could mean that the camera crew may come prepared for these situations to prevent cause of useless footage that cannot be used or having to re-film certain scenes which is almost impossible as the documentaries purpose is to catch the authenticity of the matter between the link of social media and drug dealing with help of the filming location and interview format playing on a sense of realism.
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