Sound Techniques

• Starter: Sound is important in creating meaning for the audience because if you arent paying attention in one part of the film and its a horror the sound will tell you whats happening. It creates suspense/emotion in the film. Contributes to the relaism of the film and helps to create a paticualr atmosphere
• Diegesis is the narrative construct that everything takes place in, it is the 'story world/the world that the film/TV programme takes place in'
• How real the diegesis appears is linked to the level of 'verismilitude'(which means the appearance of being real)
• Synchronous sounds are sounds which are synchronized or matched with what is viewed, this is a diegetic sound, this can be used for simple examples such as footsteps or mvement. Added in post production in most cases
• Dialogue authenticates the speaker as an individual or a real person raher than the imaanry creatin of a story teller
• Accent- The way you pronunce words due to location you live in
• Dialect- The words you use
• Tone- How you speak changes when your angry or happy- intonation
• Mode of address- The way you speak to audience (informal/formal)
• Ambient sound is natural noise used to establish location
• Diegetic sound is sound that the characters ca hear for example: Sound effects, Foley sound
• Non diegetic sound is sound that the characters cant hear for example: Narrator, Added music(mood music)
• Sound bridges lead in or out of a scene, one of the most common transitions in the continuity editing style. Can be both non diegteic and diegetic, they can start as non diegetic and then bridge to a scene where the music has a visible source
• Incidental music is music composed in a film or play as a background to ceate or enchance a particular atmosphere, is composed to accompany he action of a drama or to fill intervas between scenes. Gives hints to what is about to happen next, tpically used i horror to create tension
• Stings are used as distinctive background music to add emphasis to an importnat moment in a motio picture or tv progam, can be used to indacte ending or start of a show for example Coronation Street, Friends
• Motifs condition the audience emotionally for the arrival, or ations of a charcter. The use of sound motifs can help shape a story that requires many charcters and many locations as it helps to sustain he narrative as the help clarify he narrative functios of the characters and provide a sound association for those charcters as we move through the story for example: Jaws motif, Darthvader, Pyshco