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Sound Finding Nemo Essay

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Intro to cinema
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 …show more content…

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

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