Sound Continued

AS Media

Recap Quiz1. What is diegetic sound?

2. What is non-diegetic sound?

3. Is a narrator diegetic or non-diegetic?

4. What is ambient sound?

5. A character turns on the radio and we hear music, is this diegetic or non-diegetic sound?

Sound and setting

• Diegetic and non-diegetic sound can help create information concerning the different settings that are evident within a film

• Contemporary or past time• The diegetic sound of wind in leaves, for example,

coupled with a soundtrack of haunting strings, could effectively generate a sense of potential danger of a place

Where are we…

• Sound 1• Sound 2

Character theme

• Indicate the status of the character within the scene or the film as a whole

• Be used to indicate the impact of a character on other characters within the scene or the film

• Can you think of any examples….

Whose are these character themes

• Character 2• Character 3• Character 4

• These may tell us the status of a character but what about how someone is feeling?

• How a character perhaps may feel to another character?

Sound and genre

What genre are these?

• Genre sound clip 2• Genre sound clip 4

• Do they tell us more than genre?

Music creates moodHow does music create mood

Listen to the following music and discuss the mood and feeling it creates:

Mood music 1

What music do we expect the hear during a death scene?

Not correct music

Garage BandEach group will create a short story, using garage band you will create the music to

accompany the scenes.

Consider a genre of TV drama or a representation that it could allude to.