1. Sound
• Verbal soundtrack (for example, dialogue, voiceover, narration)
• Soundtrack (for example, ‘natural’ sound, pauses, silence)
• Music score (themes and stings, bridges and motifs)
• Ambient sound (such as general background noise used to establish place, and create
a sense of realism)

2. Verbal soundtrack
• Verbal soundtrack – Dialogue is the main
source of sound in this item and is one of
many ways to show the audience the
characters thoughts and emotion and mixes
with the background noise

3. Sound effects
• Natural sounds; sound of traffic shows that the
characters are outside and near traffic, the
skidding of the car shows the audience that
something bad has happened even thought you
cannot see the woman get knocked over. The
sound of other people talking when they get out
of the taxi shows that they are in a public place or
near a cafe or restaurant. When the woman gets
hit the man’s heart beat slows down and the
sound is focused on him.

4. Music score
• Music score – The beginning music builds up when the woman
walks away from the man to go into the hospital. This music lasts
for the duration of the office scene and fades out when she walks
out of the hospital. The music is a slow beat but the lyrics and
melody show the audience that the scene is not happy. This piece
of music makes the scene predictable so to shock the
audience, when she leaves she leaves the hospital the music fades a
out slowly. The last line of the lyrics is “remember what you see”
this could allow the audience into an insight of what will happen
next.
• At the end of the sequence there is dramatic classical music. This builds
the tension for the audience. There are climaxes within the music. One of
them is when the woman closes her eyes and the volume of the music
rises and makes it clear that she has died. The music has a sad tone which
fades out slowly into black.

5. Ambient sound
• Ambient sound; the dialogue is louder than the diegetic sound of moving
traffic – sets the scene
• Bridged, non-diegetic sound before the woman enters the hospital
• non – diegetic sound in the hospital so that the audience can make a
moral decision of what is happening and relate emotionally
• Added non-diegetic sound of a car horn to warn the audience of what is
about to happen
• Added non-diegetic sound of heartbeat, to show the man’s emotions
• Non-diegetic piano at the end of the sequence to show emotion
• The music is generally synchronous when the non-diegetic sound of the
heartbeat is playing and the male character is running across the road