Sound

Learning Objectives
-List 4 types of sound used on TV drama

-recognise the sounds in a TV drama clip, and discuss the effect they have.

-Relate the use of sound in a TV Drama clip to the representations that are produced.




Diagetic- All the sound you can see
 Non-diagetic-  sounds that you can't see (voice over, Clapping)

What mood is create by a sound:

Clip 1:
Beeping- conotaions, in a rush trying to make people aware of them, stress
Crying- stressed upset worried
Music- dramatic high paced, faster and faster, louder and louder, big drum beats helped keep pace, ochracterier instimunts that relate to fastpaced chaos

Diagetic- Voices, screaming shouting (enhanced dramatic sound) - Chaos
Loud voices are louder make it more dramatic to create tenstion



Clip 2:
-Up beat music,  happy, calm, lyrics symbolise scene, voices, cheering , happy tones of voice,  song lyrics 'Perfect Day' - normal sounds, nothing unexpected
-Everything is linked to happieness assosiation with feeling good


Key termanology
-Sound Track-The recorded sound element of a film.
-Theme music/tune- a recurrent melody in the film
-Sound Effefcts- Sound s other than dialougue or music made artifficailly
-Ambient sound- Buzz and or surronding sounds
-Dialogue

Verisinilituted-  A creation of a un-realistic world in a realasistic world (Marvel

Voice over- narriation in a film not accopinaited by a schchromonused image of the speaker forming the words

Direct address- when characters speak directley to the camrea i.e the auidience

Digetic- any sound that has an onscreen source and belongs to the world of the film

Non-Diegetic- any sound does not have an onscreen source & characters onscreen do not hear it e.g some voiceovers, music.

Sound bridges- fade to next scene,  (scrubs danummm) smooth transition from one scene to anouther, a link to two scenes.

Parallel sounds- NOrmally Crying on screen =Sad sound track, happy soundtrack to a sad scene is parrelel sounds.

Contapuntal sound- sound that does not complement or fit with the image track.