How sound creates meaning for the viewer.

1. Miseen scene sound

2. sound is invisible but a powerful tool for generating meaning aural not visual but can provoke an equally powerful response in the viewer What sound film memories do you have?

5. non- diegetic sound cannot be heard by the characters in the filmExamples voice- over, soundtrack Diegetic and non-diegetic sound are often used together to generate a particular response in the viewer

8. first shots underwater

9. shark not seen but its presence is implied by the soundtrack

10. the score uses a series of low , repeated notes in order to illustrate the relentless threatening nature of the shark

11. the notes continue to build tension and anxiety for the viewer, no resolutionTHE NON- DIEGETIC SOUND IN THIS SEQUENCE ESTABLISHES THE TONE, ATMOSPHERE, GENRE AND THE MAIN THREAT WITHIN THE FILM.

13. Rear Window- diegetic sound the first sounds we hear are what Jeffries can hear: voices, jazz music, traffic sounds. We hear these as Jeffries would hear them, the diegetic sound has a muffled echoing quality Jeffries is detached from the life going on around him and in a bored frame of mind. The diegetic sound helps to establish this.

15. genre

16. setting

18. victim or hero

19. character regularly have a piece of music attached to them- called a character theme

20. can establish status

21. a character can be signalled by playing their theme when not on screen

22. Aural motifs( not music but repeated sounds)

23. A character’s nervous state of mind could be conveyed through non- diegetic sound( clattering of noise flinching)

25. screams, knife slashes, howling wind, screeching doors?

26. Composers can even become associated with a type of film- EnnioMorricone/ Gregorian chantslisten to these two tracks, guess the genre

28. sound & setting safe or not? contemporary or past? country? wind , leaves, stringed music, windows blowing open and shut in the wind= ???? slaves being shouted at, whips cracking, swords clanking water lapping ?????? listen to these two soundtracks and work out the setting

29. sound & narrative non diegetic voice overs sound bridge- connect two scenes, carries on from one scene into the other http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPOcR087uxM&feature=related