Tuesday, 26 March 2013

sound research

sound research

sound in movies plays an important role in creating  atmosphere for a scene it can be used to create tension, comedy, fear, excitement and many more things and in some cases it is the lack of sound that draws the audience in.

diagetic sound is noise such as music, conversation or the wind that is coming from and is actually apart of the movie world this is easily spotted as all movies except silent movies include this.

non-diagetic is noise that is not apart of the movie world such as during a fight or chase seen in actions normally have music during it to add to the adrenaline a good example of this is in the opening of star wars they use the non-diagetic  theme tune os star wars as the text fades in to space
by convention a soundtrack can contain all kinds of music including music inspired by but not actually appearing in the movie; the score contains music by the original film’s composers

  in this trailer for god of war ascension they use an emotional song along with a video of the protagonists dead family as they were before their deaths and as the trailer continues we see his family turn to ash as it is revealed these are his memories and what have driven him in to an unstoppable rage this all used not just to see what happened to him but to also create a sense of sorrow and tragedy at his past. it is a non-diagetic song that has a women sing about her pain using very low slowish music as the trailer progress and the woman sing about how she cant hang on to the  her and another used to resemble Kratos and the memory of his wife and child

toby turners literal trailer uses the same music but to different affect by changing the lyrics to something funny as when Kratos’ daughter turns to ash he asks “baby, did your mum put sunblock on you” and replies no to add comedic affect instead of an emotional one, toby also does this at a time when both the music and Kratos show a emotional side as he falls in to a deep rage at the death of his loved ones by saying angry moment at Kratos at the end face but saying happy moment sad moment before that when it changes between his memories and the present all this is done to give the trailer a more light hearted and comedy fill then the original trailer

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