Friday, 23 October 2015

Sound in TV and Film


Within this opening scene of Sherlock Holmes, a Game of Shadows. I will be explaining the sounds within this clip, Non-Diegetic and Diegetic sound.

If you notice that the clip starts with a non-diegetic sound of a old western piano playing. Then it slowly goes into a diegetic sound of the horses hooves clattering and carriage wheels turning, with a horse naying.
The music is also picking up tempo with the sound of the chelo, which is followed with the sounds of the gun being loaded or cocking.
A drum beat is introduced, which is used to emphasise the editing and the narrative of the clips.
Then you can hear a fate sound of foot steps of somebody running and then cut to the horse and carriage sound. Including the sound of the reins on the horses clinking and the Crow or Raven cawing.
This carries on until a violin sound is added. Sherlock drops and rolls and we hear a thud before we hear the door being kicked in.
Final, there is a sound bridge of the wind, which takes us from outside to inside and a echo silence.

Friday, 9 October 2015

Hot Fuzz Analyse

Here is a sequence from the film 'Hot Fuzz'. I have chosen twelve frames of the characters reaction of seeing the main character, Sargent Angel, alive.













If you notice that each Frame is a close up of the characters, to see the expression on their faces. You can also see that most of the characters in the frames are in centre and off centre, but some of them are a bit longer then others, to give a sense of anticipation to the audience, seeing who will start off the gun fight or shoot first.