7. Film _____________
• 1st time = no video
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn8PKhe
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8. SOUND What can you hear in the shot? Why has it been used?
What does it communicate?
What is the effect?
9. Model answer
• P The diegetic sound has had a filter added to it in post-production to make it
sound muffled and create the effect of disorientation and confusion.
• E This happens near the beginning of the sequence as the boy’s mother sees
the attackers running with violent intent from the train towards her and her sons.
The diegetic sounds of children playing in the water are suddenly muffled.
• A (how) The muffled sound signifies the confusion and disorientation of
the young boys and their mother because it replicates for the audience what it
must have been like at the time for them. Their lives changed in a matter of
seconds as the hordes of men ran at them and attacked and this would have been
extraordinarily stressful for them and particularly confusing for a young child who
then watched his mother get killed. The muffled diegetic sound signifies their
confusion as they cannot think clearly.
• A (why) This change in the tempo/pace of the editing has been used at this
particular point in the film as this is a key conflict between the protagonist and an
important antagonist. This sort of physical combat scene is a generic pleasure of
action/adventure films and the increase in the number of cuts helps to create the
intensity and pace that the audience expect and want to see in this genre of film.
10. Turning it into 5/5 paragraphs
• Start with your Point – use a technical term
and say what effect it creates:
• The diegetic sound has had a filter added to it
in post-production to make it sound muffled
and create the effect of disorientation and
confusion.
11. Turning it into 5/5 paragraphs
• Then, make sure you identify a really specific
Example:
• This happens near the beginning of the
sequence as the boy’s mother sees the
attackers running with violent intent from the
train towards her and her sons. The diegetic
sounds of children playing in the water are
suddenly muffled.
12. Turning it into 5/5 paragraphs
• Finally, but really importantly, you need to
develop your original point with some Analysis.
• People find this the tricky bit – a common
mistake is just re-writing the original point
without really adding anything new.
• Think about the questions on the following slide
– by answering them fully you will develop your
original point with some Analysis.
13. Analysis pointers
• How does this sound create this particular
effect?
• Why has this sound been used to create this
particular effect at this point of the film?
• Is the sound technique helped to create the
effect by being combined with another
technical code?
14. Turning it into 5/5 paragraphs
• The muffled sound signifies the confusion and
disorientation of the young boys and their
mother because it replicates for the audience
what it must have been like at the time for them.
Their lives changed in a matter of seconds as the
hordes of men ran at them and attacked and this
would have been extraordinarily stressful for
them and particularly confusing for a young child
who then watched his mother get killed. The
muffled diegetic sound signifies their confusion
as they cannot think clearly.
HOW?
15. Turning it into 5/5 paragraphs
• This sound effect has been used at this particular
point in the film as the protagonist is recalling a
momentous and life-changing event from his
past. The muffling of the diegetic sound connotes
his confusion and disorientation and encourages
the audience to empathise with him and to feel
sympathy for what he witnessed as a young child.
The director is trying to signify to the audience
what it would have been like for the young boy by
using the sound to clearly signify his distress and
confusion.
WHY?
16. Turning it into 5/5 paragraphs
• The confusion and disorientation of the
protagonist is also signified and supported by the
camerawork at this point in the film. Dutch angles
that frame the mother in the foreground with the
attacking hordes in the background running
towards them work alongside the muffling of the
diegetic sound to signify that this was a hugely
distressing and confusing event. Therefore, the
sound and the camerawork combine to signify
the enormous impact that this had on the
protagonist as a young child.
COMBINATION WITH ANOTHER
TECHNICAL CODE.
17. The 1st sound technique in the is:
The director uses ……..
This is used when….
This connotes/shows/suggests….
SOUND What can you hear in the shot? Why has it been used?
What does it communicate?
What is the effect?
20. The 1st sound technique in the is:
The director uses ……..
This is used when….
This connotes/shows/suggests….
SOUND What can you hear in the shot? Why has it been used?
What does it communicate?
What is the effect?
