Sound Exercise

Analysing my sound exercise

Diegetic sound:

When recording the diegetic sound we used a microphone device to pick the sound up clearer. Within our exercise there is diegetic sound of dialogue, crashing and banging. The dialogue is important in our exercise as it explains the plot of the story and the twist. It is clearly an interrogation however the interrogated is the wrong person. In fact the body guard is behind it all. Without the dialogue this would not make sense.

Non-diegetic sound:

The non diegetic sound we used was at the timing of the flash back whereby the body guard is seen stealing the money helps to create an eerie feel and highlight the twist and thrill. 

On screen sound:

We have use of on screen sound, we see the door handle opening and can hear the cogs moving inside it. We can also hear sound of banging the chair and can see the interrogated squirming.

Off screen sound:

We included off screen sound as well as on screen. This is present when the interegation continues, mid way through we hear the sound of the door opening and foot steps. By having this off screen sound an enigma code is formed. The audience wonder who has just entered and why has the main man not paid any attention? It almost creates a need, a thirst in the audience to see who has just entered the room. I feel this is a strong point in our exercise.

Parallel sound:

There is clear use of parallel sound when the non diegetic music is playing. Its an eerie chilling sound which fits to what has just occurred. We have just discovered that the body guard is the one behind the theft. Therefore the twist has occurred and an eerie atmosphere is set as both the bodyguard and the interrogated know the real truth. The fact that the bodyguard has this hold over the interrogated of being a trusty right hand man a thrilling feel is created. I feel this is good use of parallel sound.

Sound bridge:

I originally planned to include a sound bridge in our work but we had problems with recording the sound all together. We ended up having to film the whole sequence three times due to a faulty microphone. We wanted a sound bridge to be present when the flashback occurred but we struggled to form it and so decided we would not have one at all.

Contrapuntal sound:

We decided not to include contrapuntal sound as we felt it did not fit to our short sequence and would look and sound confusing rather than clever and thrilling.