Lesson 7, Lights Camera Action

•  17 January 2022

Lights camera action ! Sound And Film

Lo : to explore the use of sound in films

Music

a horror film would have a tense, scary, uncomfortable, screaming, creaking off-putting sounds (  children screaming, giggling or crying )  Sounds/Music like that.

a thriller film would include sounds/music like bombs or whispering and/or ghostly sounds and creepy music.

a action film would have music with suspence and bouncy yet thrilling music. sounds like a car screeching to catch 

a comedy would have bouncy uplifting music, with sounds like friends telling jokes.

si-fi films would have extraterrestrial sounds and futuristic music. 

The sound in a film can be 1 0f 2 types :

Diegetic - sounds you would hear if you where in the scene E.e. someone speaking, footsteps, music on a radio.

Non diegetic- sounds that only the audience can hear like dialogue music.

 The Matrix

• Diegetic - the dialogue, hearing dropping sounds and fighting with gunshots

Non-diegetic - loud booming drums, with backround music like wind and other track music 

                                                                        Foley 

Is the reproduction of everyday sounds use in for filmmaking .

These reproduced sounds can be anything from the swishing of clothing to braking glass and squeaky doors.

it helps create a sense of reality. Without background music or breathing or else it would be uncomfortable.

  

Foley in a nut shell is basically sounds in a film like ice freezing which people make themselves. It could be tiny details, you would have to use foley all the time for animation. 

  

Sounds in short film animation : door open and closing. gaming, phone, dog bark, walking, human expressions, rustle of box and other SOUND EFFECTS !

1. There are music in the trailer 

2.The music is spooky and sells chills down your spine

3. When someone speaks the suspence of music goes up

4.when the music chances so does the picture  

5.Yes you can tell wants happening in the scene with the speaking and you could possibly tell what is going on because on the mood of music

6. There are moments of silence in the music so you can hear the speaking like its important info

7. Characters speak as well so you know whats going on