Sound

Sound in Movies

There are lots of different types of sound in Movies.

Diegetic sound- is sound that the characters would be able to hear in the background of the scene e.g. Children playing, birds chirping and cars passing by.

Non- Diegetic- Sound that has been added in afterwards and is something that wouldn't be in a natural background e.g., a voice over or music.

Synchronous sound- Sounds that go with what you see on screen.

Asynchronous sound- We can see it on screen, but we can hear it.

Ambient sound- Creating an atmosphere. This is where sounds are faintly put into the background to create tension.



Prisoners Opening Scene
The start of the film is only diegetic sounds because this builds natural tension. The first 1 minute includes no non-diegetic sounds. When the scene then changes to being outside, you start to hear the sound of rain and thunder. Both these sounds have been added because they aren't normal sounds and plus it would of been hard to record these sounds. When we see the dark figure sitting in the car ambient music starts to play to build a creep atmosphere, this builds tension through non-diegetic sound. The car revving its engine is a good use of Foley because an RV's engine wouldn't usually sound like that, so they have over made the engine sound louder than it would so people will be able to hear it because it builds tension. Sound was used amazingly in the opening scene of "Prisoners", this is what I think personally made the opening amazing because the sound was used perfectly.