Film Studies, Micro Analysis, Sound and Music in Film, Movies in Sound

1. Textual Analysis

3.  Sound which comes from the world of the
film (the diegesis).
 Any event which occurs on or off screen
which has a noise audible to the characters.
Includes:
 Dialogue
 Ambient Sounds
▪ Sound Effects

4.  Diegetic sound is a highly effective at
creating a sense of place and the nature of
events (environment).

5.  Scripted speech:
 Moves the story forward
▪ Emphasises events in the scene
 Develops the audience’s sense of character
▪ Creates relationships & tensions

6.  Scripted speech:
 Accent
 Delivery
 Vocabulary

7.  Apply what you’ve learnt to this sequence

8. Sound which is not from any source within the diegesis (world of the film)
but is added as an extra layer of sound in post production. Includes:
Music
Voiceovers

9. The feel of the film

10.  Interpret (emotionally) a feeling or sensation

11.  Create or enhance audiences’ understanding of
and/or empathy with a key character.

12.  Echoes the nature of the place in which the
film is set:
 Scale
 Culture
 Mystery
 Wonder

13.  Gives a sense of pace to the sequence, allows
the audience to move follow the flow
(climaxes / lulls) of the sequence and the
overall film.

14.  Lyrics can be used in some cases to reflect the
theme(s) of the film.

15.  Position the audience with a particular
character
 Understand their mental state
 Give us narrative information
 Trick us – The untrustworthy narrator

16.  Popular or classical music
 Instrumentation
 Rhythm
 Tempo
 Volume
 Arrangement (Crescendos, Diminuendos, key
changes)

17.  Parallel (matches emotions / events on
screen).
 Contrapuntal (contrasts / juxtaposes events /
emotions on screen).

18.  Used to link two sequences together and is
employed in conjunction with editing to
move the action in time or place or both.
 Can be diegetic or non diegetic sound.

19.  Character’s signature tune

20.  The quality of the sound changes depending
on the audiences’ positioning in events.
 Diegetic & Non-Diegetic can be made to fade into
the background or fore grounded depending on
the need / impact.