- Describe each of the three basic categories of sound (dialogue, sound effects, and music).
- Explain how the different categories of sound are being used in your chosen film.
- Assess the impact of sound in establishing the theme.
- How does the use of sound inform the mood of the scene, or the film overall?
- Can you identify specific sounds in your film that allow you to infer a particular genre?
- Since each category of sound may produce a range of effects, how might you characterize the effects in your film? For example, realistic and expected sound effects may have a different effect on a viewer than exaggerated or unexpected ones.
- Assess how the scene or sequence would play differently if you changed or removed a key category of sound.
Mise en scène is the terminology used to describe what the audience sees in a scene as well as the actors that are present. It’s describing a character’s appearance and demeanor. The use of time, space, and activities are all there to tell us something about the personality of the character. These are often given away as a means to help us to understand and be able to relate to the character. The sound in this scene is ideal for a gangster movie. It has the creepy music in addition to the sudden gunshots inform the viewer that this is a violent scene and movie overall. The way the scenes keep going from dramatic music to gunshots, and people dropping dead help me to identify that this is an action/crime movie. The sound effects in this scene was both realistic and unexpected. I think it would’ve been less exciting if the music or talking was taken away.
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