Laberinto Del Fauno

He is able to use these parts to manipulate the audience’s emotions. The music playing from the car is an on-screen sound. As the man gets attacked, the volume increases. The sound helps intensify the scene that has been created by the film’s visual elements. The audience then subconsciously forms ideas, opinions, and feelings about what they are seeing. The viewers develop scared feelings as the scene intensifies to the happy upbeat tune. The increasing volume of the cheery song reflects the violence and the sinisterness of the scene. The song stops with the slamming of the car’s driver-side door as the man is abducted. There is a moment of silence and then a new song abruptly entered the silent scene. The music is non-diegetic and is an offscreen sound. The song is screechy, high pitched, and jagged sounding at first, continuing the anxious and scared mood. The song shifts into a sort of soulful hymn. The tone shifts along with the song. The audience begins to feel relieved and relaxes to the peaceful song.

For my third cultural project I watch El Laberinto del Fauno, by Guillermo del Toro Gómez. The film is known in English as pan’s labyrinth but the direct translation would be the labyrinth of the faun. The film was rated R and it deserves this rating. The film was dark fantasy and had many scenes suited for adults. It was a Spanish/Mexican film(“EL LABERINTO”). It was enjoyable and did provide some insight into the life and culture of the setting.

Along with background music, sound effects play more of a role on the way we feel than many moviegoers think, and "although the function of sound effects is primarily atmospheric, they can also be precise sources of meaning in film" (Giannetti, 225). When the

Loud, booming brass instruments play to a slow beat of a drum, while a silhouette of a man supported by crutches begins to inch closer and closer to the camera. His approach to the audience continues until, eventually, his whole shadow takes up the entire camera and the whole scene is pitch black. The black figure is a looming presence that exudes danger, and the threatening music that accompanies his forward movements heightens sentiments of dismay. What is haunting about this scene is the fact that he eventually consumes all of the screen, which adds to a sense of enclosure. Thus, the viewer is forcibly trapped into all-consuming darkness. This particular moment is significant because it relates to the film’s central theme of inevitability; just like the looming dark figure who is fast-approaching the audience, the fate and doom of Walter Neff quickly caught up to him despite his well-calculated pursuits of getting away with murder. He must now suffer the consequences his misdeeds, and, just like the audience who is enclosed by the darkness, he is essentially feels trapped and is forced to confess. In addition, the very fact that this forward-walking silhouette is that of Mr. Dietrichson, not only foreshadows the film’s murder victim, but also adds an eerie feel to the opening scene (because in this instance, we are literally presented with a “dead man walking”). Similar to

“The most exciting moment is the moment when I add the sound… At this moment, I tremble.” (Akira Kurosawa) Sound is arguably the most important concept in cinema studies, being there ever since the beginnings. It can radically change the way a motion picture is looked at and it can render what the director may sometimes find hard to depict using only his camera. Looking upon silent cinema one discovers an era which wasn’t at all silent, but rich in sound of different forms, from the simple narration of the images shown on screen, accompanied by a piano, to the complex score later composed specifically for that film. An example of that complex score is shown in Sunrise, a film by F.W. Murnau, which lies at the border between silent cinema and sound cinema. Considered to be one of the first films with an actual score, Sunrise is a great example of the multitude of dimensions and effects sound can have.

She is screaming. She makes it to the staircase out of the dungeon and runs up it. She slams the door right into Duncan’s face. “Help! Help!

Just a few seconds later in the same scene, he hears the sound of bombs exploding nearby, and desperately starts running in the opposite direction. The sound of the bombs give the audience the impression that danger is near. When the protagonist is running away from the sound of the bombs, the viewer can hear the playing of drums in the background. This shows the audience the intensity and nervousness that the man is going through in that specific scene. I analyzed and concluded that every sound/music being played in this film had a specific reason of why it was played.

The scene the opens up with introducing each of the characters. All are at a medium close up and looking right at the camera almost as if they are addressing it. There are several scenes where there are long camera cuts. Instead of cutting to another characters face while in conversation or looking at something across the room, the camera pans across the room or to the face.

Two components that have an immense impact on the quality and caliber of a film are the editing and sound found within the film. These two aspects alone can make or break a film. In the film The Kings of Summer, directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts, these two elements collaborate to highlight certain emotions and key moments in the film’s plot. Some of the sub-elements of these two components that can easily be identified within the film include the flashforward, the flashback, both nondiegetic and diegetic sound, semi diegetic sound, graphic matching and voice offs. Within the film The Kings Of Summer, editing and sound are methodically and tactfully utilized in order to produce a film that is both entertaining and meaningful for the audience.

The producers will develop a test and the audience will tell the producers whether it is something they want to see or they are not going to see. This can affect the next text to be produced in an attempt to conform to the audience demands. Looking at the development of different types of genres and the development of films within the same genre, it’s possible to look at similarities and differences and identify changes in society and audience ideologies and tastes.

Since the establishment of Walt Disney Company in 1923, it has created many classic animated characters, such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Lion King, Bambi, and so on. The success of Disney animated movie is not only due to its wonderful storyline and the vivid characterization of the animated characters, but also because of the music produced in the film. Disney’s music, whether its theme music, its background music, or song music, are clever and perfect blend of the plot, prompting many Disney animated movies become classics. This paper will focus on one of the Disney’s animated movie, The Three Caballeros, and analysis the connections between its content and its music.

sound effects in the movie play a significant role. There is a sound-track, which is based

The aim of this research investigation into genre is to gain an understanding in the way that horror films are constructed and created to effectively represent the genre to its audience. This will expand my understanding of how technical, audio codes, setting and characterization are frequently used in constructing a piece of media text to either reinforce or deviate from stereotypes and audience's expectations. Bateman states that "Audiences are said to like the concept of genre (although we may not identify it by that name) because of its reassuring and familiar promise of

The acting by Sarah Michelle Gellar during the movie was good and the rest of the acting isn’t bad either, there really wasn’t any actor that didn’t do a good job fulfilling his or her part. The films special effects are also pretty good, they are also very freighting as well. The best thing about the movie and what really makes the movie so scary is that it has some great cinematography. The shots look good, and there are a great number of shots in the movie. The scenes are weird and a little outrageous at times from the repeated gruesome images of a bloodied woman, depictions of suicides, murders, to the disfigured body parts, but I do like how the film does fit the disjointed scenes together, it leaves your imagination filling

The sound of a woman crying erupted from the walls around him. Sonic transmissions fed directly into the walls of him room. Good for immersion in a movie but not a fantastic choice for his wife’s grief.