Planning Sound
Sound is important when planning a film because it can be used to create effects on the audience that they can hear so they are not distracted from what is going on in the film and you do not have to change you mise-en-scene or cinematography in order to fit it in. Sound also helps to add emphasis to what the audience are seeing by creating meanings and emotions that the audience will feel when they hear these sounds coupled with what they are seeing.
In our sequence we want to use non-diegetic sound. This will be heard when at the end of the sequence when the victim is being followed by the killer, the sound itself will be eerie. We want to use this because it will bring emphasis to the sinister things the killer has planned for his victim and inform the audience of the malevolent setting that the victim and killer have entered. This will also symbolize the killer's power as whatever situation he has entered, a walk home from school, he is able to dominate it and twist it to be about him. This is conventional of the thriller genre as the audience expect the sound to change from ordinary sounds to more sinister music to draw their attention to the killer entering the scene and how he is going to have an impact on the narrative. This creates suspense in the audience as they have to wait to see if she will realize that he is following her and how he is going to attack her and also if she is able to defend herself from a more dominant character. This makes the audience begin to worry about the state of the victim as she is unaware to the killer entering the scene and that he is behind and gaining ground on her, so the audience realize that she will be unable to defend herself properly if she is caught off-guard.
In our sequence we want to use silence for effect. This will be heard at the end of the sequence once it has been revealed that the victim is actually the killer and who the audience believed was the killer is just a vigilante. We want to use this because it will leave the audience with no more information at the end of the scene leaving them to take in the plot twist and come to terms with the revelation of what has just happened and how this will change what happens further in the plot. This is conventional as the audience expect to hear silence as a way of cutting off their information on what to expect next so that they are unsure of what will happen next and have to engage themselves further in the plot to try to work out what will come next for the victim. This creates suspense in the audience as they no longer know what to think as they have just witnessed a plot twist that has lead them to analyse what they have seen in order to make sense of what they have seen, while the silence in the background stops leaves them on their own to try to work it out without any help from the film. This helps the audience to focus more on the victim, who is actually the killer, in order to work out why she has turned on who the audience believed was her friend as this goes against what they have already worked out through what the narrative has told them, meaning that they have to look at this character at a whole new angle.
In our sequence we want to use parallel sound. The sounds of children playing will be heard in the background when the victim walks into school on her own. We want to use this as it will tell the audience that this is a school where the victim should be safe, although as they see later on in the sequence, the killer begins to follow her from outside the school, suggesting to the audience that the victim is not as safe as they think. This is conventional as the audience expect to see the victim in a location that would normally be consider safe, like their home, where the killer shouldn't be able to get them until he manages to track the victim down and attack her when she is least expecting it. This creates suspense in the audience as they are unsure where the killer is and why the setting is so ordinary when there is a killer tracking the victim, while the audience are left wondering whether he will attack the victim in school and, if so, if the killer has any connections to the school. The audience begin to see how confident the killer is as he believes he will be able to follow his victim around the school without being questioned or stopped before he is able to get to her, while he is also seen as ruthless by the audience as they don't know if he is capable of killing children.
In our sequence we want to use on-screen sound for effect. The sound of the knife stabbing will be made louder with a sharper sound when the victim stabs the killer as part of the plot twist. We want to use this as we think it will draw significance to the plot twist and so reengaging the audience's attention, and show that the victim is in a dangerous situation with relative elements of danger. This will also serve as the point where the audience's view of the victim shifts from that of an innocent victim to a killer. This is conventional as the audience expect to hear the sound of a knife stab in order to draw the audience's attention to it and show the impact it will have on the narrative and how it has changed the audience's views of characters. This creates shock in the audience as the sound will come from out of nowhere and be unexpected by the audience as they do not expect for the victim to be able to kill someone, while this shift in mood and characters is also shocking for the audience as they haven't expected it. This changes the audience's opinions of both the victim and the killer as their roles in the narrative has shifted with the revelation that the victim is the killer all along, while the killer is just a vigilante hunting the killer, a plot twist that is introduced to the character with the sound of the knife entering the false killer.
Our sequence will be effective as we use sound to complement, not dominate, the scenes and add more emphasis on what the audience is seeing in order to build up emotions in the audience that will allow them to engage with the narrative more and build relationships with the characters presented. Our sequence is conventional by the use of sound as we are going to use it to build up suspense and shock in the audience that isn't released until the end, something that the audience has come to expect from seeing other thriller films, while also using it to show the dominance of the killer as he is able to enter a school, emphasized by parallel sound, and also using sound to draw significance to our plot twist. By planning our sound before we begin filming it will allow us to save time as we will know what we want do when we're filming and what we will need, while also allowing us to think more in-depth on what we want and having time to change what we feel wouldn't be effective.
In our sequence we want to use non-diegetic sound. This will be heard when at the end of the sequence when the victim is being followed by the killer, the sound itself will be eerie. We want to use this because it will bring emphasis to the sinister things the killer has planned for his victim and inform the audience of the malevolent setting that the victim and killer have entered. This will also symbolize the killer's power as whatever situation he has entered, a walk home from school, he is able to dominate it and twist it to be about him. This is conventional of the thriller genre as the audience expect the sound to change from ordinary sounds to more sinister music to draw their attention to the killer entering the scene and how he is going to have an impact on the narrative. This creates suspense in the audience as they have to wait to see if she will realize that he is following her and how he is going to attack her and also if she is able to defend herself from a more dominant character. This makes the audience begin to worry about the state of the victim as she is unaware to the killer entering the scene and that he is behind and gaining ground on her, so the audience realize that she will be unable to defend herself properly if she is caught off-guard.
In our sequence we want to use silence for effect. This will be heard at the end of the sequence once it has been revealed that the victim is actually the killer and who the audience believed was the killer is just a vigilante. We want to use this because it will leave the audience with no more information at the end of the scene leaving them to take in the plot twist and come to terms with the revelation of what has just happened and how this will change what happens further in the plot. This is conventional as the audience expect to hear silence as a way of cutting off their information on what to expect next so that they are unsure of what will happen next and have to engage themselves further in the plot to try to work out what will come next for the victim. This creates suspense in the audience as they no longer know what to think as they have just witnessed a plot twist that has lead them to analyse what they have seen in order to make sense of what they have seen, while the silence in the background stops leaves them on their own to try to work it out without any help from the film. This helps the audience to focus more on the victim, who is actually the killer, in order to work out why she has turned on who the audience believed was her friend as this goes against what they have already worked out through what the narrative has told them, meaning that they have to look at this character at a whole new angle.
In our sequence we want to use parallel sound. The sounds of children playing will be heard in the background when the victim walks into school on her own. We want to use this as it will tell the audience that this is a school where the victim should be safe, although as they see later on in the sequence, the killer begins to follow her from outside the school, suggesting to the audience that the victim is not as safe as they think. This is conventional as the audience expect to see the victim in a location that would normally be consider safe, like their home, where the killer shouldn't be able to get them until he manages to track the victim down and attack her when she is least expecting it. This creates suspense in the audience as they are unsure where the killer is and why the setting is so ordinary when there is a killer tracking the victim, while the audience are left wondering whether he will attack the victim in school and, if so, if the killer has any connections to the school. The audience begin to see how confident the killer is as he believes he will be able to follow his victim around the school without being questioned or stopped before he is able to get to her, while he is also seen as ruthless by the audience as they don't know if he is capable of killing children.
In our sequence we want to use on-screen sound for effect. The sound of the knife stabbing will be made louder with a sharper sound when the victim stabs the killer as part of the plot twist. We want to use this as we think it will draw significance to the plot twist and so reengaging the audience's attention, and show that the victim is in a dangerous situation with relative elements of danger. This will also serve as the point where the audience's view of the victim shifts from that of an innocent victim to a killer. This is conventional as the audience expect to hear the sound of a knife stab in order to draw the audience's attention to it and show the impact it will have on the narrative and how it has changed the audience's views of characters. This creates shock in the audience as the sound will come from out of nowhere and be unexpected by the audience as they do not expect for the victim to be able to kill someone, while this shift in mood and characters is also shocking for the audience as they haven't expected it. This changes the audience's opinions of both the victim and the killer as their roles in the narrative has shifted with the revelation that the victim is the killer all along, while the killer is just a vigilante hunting the killer, a plot twist that is introduced to the character with the sound of the knife entering the false killer.
Our sequence will be effective as we use sound to complement, not dominate, the scenes and add more emphasis on what the audience is seeing in order to build up emotions in the audience that will allow them to engage with the narrative more and build relationships with the characters presented. Our sequence is conventional by the use of sound as we are going to use it to build up suspense and shock in the audience that isn't released until the end, something that the audience has come to expect from seeing other thriller films, while also using it to show the dominance of the killer as he is able to enter a school, emphasized by parallel sound, and also using sound to draw significance to our plot twist. By planning our sound before we begin filming it will allow us to save time as we will know what we want do when we're filming and what we will need, while also allowing us to think more in-depth on what we want and having time to change what we feel wouldn't be effective.
You have provided a good analysis of the sounds you intend to use within your sequence, explaining what they should create and how a relationship can be built effectively, as well as how the sounds used will help emphasise the plot twist and further engage the audience.
ReplyDeleteYou need to:
1) Try and elaborate on how the sound techniques are conventional of the genre (seem to be swaying into the narrative more)