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Sound Elements In The Autobots

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Transformers, an action adventure movie, that was originally released in 2007 and Directed by Michael Bay. Screen writers were Roverto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, and the sound mixing technician was Dan Sharp. This movie has everything you want to keep you awake in the movie theater, one specific feature I want to focus the attention on is in the sound element's of the movie. During the entirety of the movie there is incredible techniques used to enhance the movie such as sound effects, narration and the theme music. All of these techniques come together to portray a young man in high school trying to live a normal life when out of the blue he has these giant robots from another planet trying to find his grandfathers glasses that were imprinted …show more content…

In many scenes during the movie the Autobots would transform from the car form into the robot standing like a human. The sound effects in these moments are incredible and technical. There is many moving pieces and they are made of metal, catching all these little detailed components moving is what makes these come to life. Their technology inside of each one of the robot creatures makes a movement that needs a sound like mechanical and electrical and this shows that they are more machine, and nothing at all like humans. Mixing of the machinery and the robotic noises help to know what's happening in the back ground out of the scene, whenever the Autobots or Decepticons …show more content…

For instance in the scene when the first Decepticon is shown flying to the air force base to attack it, the music playing is a deep, ominous, and a scary kind of beat. Even the robot mechanical movements and sounds are altered to show a dark scary creature about to be shown. One of the first Decepticons shown is unidentified, and the air force base is trying to contact them and tell the Decepticon to identify itself or it would be shot down, after trying still nothing is said. They fly the helicopter in and tell it to power down and get out, but what they don't know is that the pilot is just a hologram and the Decepticon transforms and begins to attack the base. Because these things are super computers they are able to hack the entire military system and find what they are looking for. The director Michael Bay with the sound mixing technician Dan Sharp used these different techniques to show both good and evil characters, so it was easy to identify who or what was coming

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