Research: Sound

What is sound in films?

Sound is the most important part of the film and the production of it, as this is what mainly the audience’s response is strongest to, as the image that comes up the audience’s reaction of what comes on the screen the sound will enhance the audience’s reaction to it. What sounds are used in the soundtrack of the film is to create the understand of the audience and what this does is allow the characters to show their emotions more effetely in the film. In all of the films what I find the most important convention is the sound as it has the most effect on the viewers and what this does in thriller film genres is that it would emphasise the characters emotions shown on screen and but what the sound does is help determine the way the audience would view on the situation that is in the film.

Examples of Sound
  - Degetic Sound

What diegetic sound is the sound that is part of the film world, what this means is that the characters would also be able to hear in the film for example a phonecall, TV or Radio. Anything that you would expect the character on screen to hear as well as the audience.

      - Non Diegetic

Non Diegetic Sound is the sound that the film makes have made for the film world, to be created for the film, which are soundtracks, sound effect and voice-overs. Non Diegetic sound is not heard by the characters as this sound is part of the film world. In thriller films the sounds are used to help create tension in the scene of the thriller to scare the audience.

Example..

- On Screen Sound:

On screen sound is when audience can be able to see where the sound in the scene is coming from, e.g. car, radio or TV.

- Off Screen Sound

Off Screen Sound is when you can hear sound in the background of the film but cannot be able to see it, and see where the sound is coming from. But the sound makes sense to the film world, examples are a background screams, coughing or traffic sounds.

- Parallel Sound

Parallel Sound is when the sound that we hear in the film does hand in hand with the image on screen (the scene). In other words the audio that you hear match with the visual mages on screen, for example when the character is on the phone you will hear the character and also see it on screen.

 - Contrapuntal Sound

Contrapuntal Sound is when the sound does not match the images on screen and does not match your expectations of what the audience is viewing as this make them unsteady and cautious of what is going to happen. A Good example is this ‘Jaws’ Scene.

Conclusion
In my conclusion i think that sound is the most important element, as it will have the best effect on the audiences reaction, as the sound enhances the reaction of the audience of what they see on screen. Sound is the biggest thing in films as it will determine the way the audience will think of what will happen next. What i have learned from this research is that sound is the most effective way to keep the audience interested in the film, because if there is no sound the audience wouldn't have a reaction to the thriller film as they won't be scared.