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10/01/2015
Film analysis (Sound- Finding Nemo)
Images can mean “too much” or “too little” without the use of sound. There are a few different sound components, some of them being vocal sound, music, environmental sound, and silence (Class discussion). While exploring the sound operation in finding nemo I noticed how time/place, character and feeling were all implemented with the use of sound.
Finding nemo takes place under water (A sea and an aquarium) for majority of the movie. All of the characters in the movie have their own vocal sound to give you a little insight into the diegesis of the film. One of the monumental voices in the film is Bruce the shark. Bruce’s voice was made to make him sound big and
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An important time when sound was implemented to give a realistic feeling is when Peaches (the starfish) in the aquarium, and she has to get off of the glass to speak. When she was on the glass talking, her voice is muffled. This one aspect was shown throughout the film in different scenes.
The music in the film gave special emotional feelings. An important part in the film that shows how music affected us emotionally is when Marlin is trying to escape from the sharks. Around Marlin is roaring sharks, Dora mumbling trying to read the swimming goggles, Marlin banging on the gate/cage, and a very intense orchestra in the background. Some sounds were lowered in order for us to hear the full effects. Even though we did not get the full dialogue, we still got the general idea with the sound and music effects.
While the music was playing at that point in the film, I had an intense/scary feeling. I thought marlin was going to get consumed by the sharks, especially since Dora had a memory loss and did not help him escape. He ended up escaping the sharks, and continued his journey to find
It is usually pre-recorded and placed over the top of a film or video and commonly used in documentaries or news reports to explain information. Focusing on selected sounds can create tension, atmosphere, and emotion. It can also impart personality to film characters. Walter Murch (the doyen of sound designers) once described the character sounds (in a film he directed) as "coronas" which can magnify each character' s screen space. A figure who is associated with a particular sound (often suggested by his or her clothing), has "a real presence that is pervasive even when the scene is about something else or the character is off-screen."
For example, the people filming the movie sometimes had the camera far away, which would then make the lines that the characters said harder to hear. If the camera was too close to a character's face, it was displeasing to look at, like when Johnny was in the hospital. Also, when watching the whole movie, it was hard to concentrate on the actual movie because I was too distracted on the voices to music ratio. Typically in a motion picture, the music is lowered enough so that the lines can be heard, while having it be loud enough for the audience to hear it, and bring the point across that it's an important moment to have that type of music. To give an example, in Ponyboy’s dream, it was very quite, then all of a sudden, extremely loud music and sounds erupted as I struggled to cover my ears, and I couldn’t pay attention to what was happening on screen because of all the piercing noise! Then, when Ponyboy woke up it was all normal volume that barely transitioned. There were a lot of other scenes that did the same exact thing, such as when Johnny went to back to his house and the volume of the parents fighting in the background almost cancelled out the other important lines and music. There are other problems than this particular one, some being no music at some points when it was most likely necessary to get the emotions that the characters were feeling across, or when the characters lines and volume were so quiet that you could barely to not hear them at all, or when the outside wind was so deafening to pay attention to anything else. It was somewhat comical to me every time one of these moments occurred, because it seems the creators didn’t care enough to fix
At some point in the film (during the “sound check” scene), Don Lockwood and his female co-star, Lina Lamont are depicted acting in a key scene full of passionate dialogue, but are faced with one challenge after the other, thereby making the scene appear hilarious. Some of the challenges they are faced with during the scene is as a consequence of Lina’s shrill voice and other difficulties with sound technology. It is apparently clear that the changes from silent film to sound is something that the silent film stars are yet to get accustomed to, seeing as it is their first sound movie. Their inexperience in the sound film is so apparent that when they are in the “sound check” scene, their dialogue in the sound film version is in total contrast with their acting. In an attempt to cope with the challenges faced in the scene, the directors and set crew try recording the scene several times, each take confronting the unpredictable variables of the new sound film
During the early stages of Hollywood cinema, silent films have been the foundation of early filmmaking and film art. Exaggerated movements and facial expressions by the actors and the use of intertitles were important elements to make sure that the audience could understand the meaning of the plot without the use of sound. Films soon started to incorporate live musical performances to create a sense of synchronized sound to enhance the quality of the film. However, there was not any dialogue between the characters within the film. Filmmakers all over the globe experimented with the development of synchronized sound.
Sound quality was there, as expected in a performance as such. In the midst of scenes you could make out crickets or even an ambulance which really gave life to the experience as a whole and left the moments of complete silence as powerful as ever.
“Jaws”, a Spielberg epic about a Great White shark terrorizing beachgoers resulted in John Williams creating a soundtrack that is still seen as iconic, and ranks as some of the most terrifying music ever written for the cinema. The simple E-F-E-F bass motif allowed Williams to create a character within the music for the shark. In many parts of the film you never see the shark but the music assures the viewers that he’s there.
Sound plays an important role throughout the film Shrek in various forms. It is a key component in the film and helps to convey meaning. The usage of sound reveals character, shapes the audience’s attention, and shapes the audience’s feelings.
The audio although normally overpowered by the visual aspect played a key role in defining and empowering the movie. The music was fast and uplifting during celebration and on
Police Chief Brody jumps up from his tense sitting position and shouts for everybody to get out of the water. This was what Police Chief Brody was worried about. The boy, Alex is a lost cause can do nothing but scream, splash and attempt to believe he can escape from the sharks clutches. Alex is dragged down violently as he tries to gasp for breath; he is finally dragged and lost to the depths of the dark sea. The camera shot is really close up to the boy as he is fighting for his life; we see his pain, his struggle and his death. Everyone on the beach couldn’t miss the raft in the distance flip over and the blood
Sound cartoon is the most important invention in everyone's life and they might not even realize. There is sound all around you and you take it for granted and have not realized where this invention came from and how it all started. This invention has helped blind people love life. At last this invention shows emotion to the people watching movies or watching TV. Sound is all around you, so appreciate it for what it has
The use of specific sounds expresses the mood of the scenes because the sounds diegetic and non-diegetic change as the emotions and feelings of the characters do in the film. For example, when her father destroys all of her artifacts that she holds sacred or as Ariel sings “A part of This World”. In fact, depending on the tempo of the sound you might be able to infer if the scene is going to be sad or friendly. Moving onto unrealistic sounds I realized that the sounds of the underwater creatures and/or Ursula screaming when she was killed were unrealistic. There are many examples of this throughout the movie, diegetic and non-diegetic sounds work together to benefit the theme of the story which is “love comes to those of all shapes, sizes and
Steven Spielberg, the creator of Jaws, uses many different techniques to draw in the suspense of viewers and to capture their imagination. These techniques include special effects – to create tension, different camera angles – to show facial expressions and group shots. The classic Jaws music, known by millions of people, also helps build up tension, to let us know when the shark is approaching. He uses colours, so that we can associate signs and symbols to forthcoming events, e.g. the colour red is associated with danger. We will be using all of the above devices to help analyse different parts of the film.
The sounds of those movements accentuate the space of the story, and immersing the viewer’s auditory senses into the obviously fictional time of the diegesis. Furthermore, the environmental sounds better establish the space and time of the story by assigning distinct pitch levels and loudness to objects and characters, based on their size. For instance, consider the scene in the beginning of the film, when the ship is navigating through the open seas. The movement of the ship enforces a loud, low pitch sound, as the waves crash onto the bow of the boat. Moreover, at another point of the film where Ariel is swimming along the surface of the ocean, a high pitched, somewhat quiet sound is applied to her
I listen to the audio of the movie “Beauty and The Beast.” Having the topic being about sound, this type of movie would be an example, for there are more technical obligations to take care of than those of realistic movies. The movie is about a prince who was curse and turns into a beast, in which a woman has to fall in love with him in order for the curse to be lifted. Throughout this movie, there were many sounds effects including fairy dust sound that represent magic. Additional sound effects include swooshes and roars represent the sound of the beast. Other sound effects would be the thunder and rain, in which represent the darkness. In the beginning scene, the movie introduces Belle, and the village she lived in that’s filled with the sound effect of rooster crowing and birds flapping their wings, in which represents peacefulness accompany by happy singing. From watching Foley video, it shows how the Foley artist used a bundle of plants rubbing against each other to create thunder sound. Another example from the movie includes using a pair of boots to make the sound horses jogging.
While well-crafted sound design and sound effects are so very necessary in the creation of a film, music touches the emotion, the psyche, and the things you cannot see. Sound design and effects don’t do this nearly as efficiently and naturally. Without music it would be much more difficult to follow the emotional ups and downs of a film. (Freer)