SOUND ANALYSISBy Monae Minors-Gibbs

Sound

• The purpose of sound is to set a mood/atmosphere:

• Romantic

• Thrilling

• Sad

• Heroic/triumphful

• Emphasis reality

The task

• The task was to “just use screen grabs and analyse as

much as the sound as you can in the hunger games clip

(girl on fire interview)”.

• I attached the clip below

http://youtu.be/S2sXXG3tTaI

Diegetic sound

• Sounds that characters can hear e.g. the applause

The

audience

and

character

can hear the

sound of the

applause

The dialogue

the presenter

(Caesar

Flickerman)

is heard

Volume control

• The control of how quiet or how load sounds are

• This is to set or emphasize mood (atmosphere)

• When character does not here the first question

The applause

got louder when

the camera gets

closer to the

audience

Sound bridge

Annotations Screen grabs

• Before Katniss comes on the stage

• presenter is speaking whilst the

camera goes on Katniss

• Caesar Flickerman says

“someone's a little nervous”

• the camera cuts on katniss and the

audience

• The audience is cheering

• camera cuts onto Katniss

Where sound (diegetic or non-diegestic) continues across one or more

cuts/transitions

Part of continuity editing

Foley

• Foley is tricks used to create naturalistic sound effects

• Recording sound by a different object

Foley artist for

the sound of

Katniss’s dress

on fire

Sound effect & Foley

• Sound added to visuals in the editing

• Sound perspective- sound recording that helps us place a sound as

either near or distant

Foley

artist/sound

effect

(naturalistic

sound) for when

Katniss twirls

around.

Sound

perspective

, when the

cut is close

up on the

dress the

sound is

louder

Editing

• Shot reverse shot (continuity)

• Eye-line match (continuity)

• Pace

• Blur (special effects)

I decided to include some editing keywords to show what I

learnt from editing.

Shot reverse shot

• Shot goes from shot A, shot B, shot A, shot B etc

• Continuously back and fourth

Shot of the presenter and Katniss

Eye line match

• When the character is looking off screen, and the cut shows what they

are looking at.

Katniss looks off, then the next cut

was who she was looking at

Pace

• If its to keep the audience calm/still (slow pace)

• Make the audience comfortable/normal (medium)

• Intense/exciting (fast) – allot of cuts involved

•These were fast

pace as it included a

lot of cuts

•Exciting energy

Blur

• To show un-clarity/fuzzy memory

Slight blur of

the

presenter to

show

Katniss is

not focused

She’s

overwhelmed

nervous so it

seems a blur

at that

moment