Evaluating Sound Exercise

The sequence we filmed for our sound exercise included myself as a mysterious character who was clearly in control, and James as a character who has failed to complete a task set by me. The dialogue consists of an interrogation followed by several threats to express the fact that I am disappointed by his failure.

The diegetic sound in our video clip was the dialogue.

The non diegetic sound in our video clip was the background music which was the instrumental version of ''Immortal Technique - Dance With The Devil''

Our example of a sound bridge was the music in the background playing through a scene change.

The beginning of the scene is a panning shot where the two characters are sat in complete silence, this is followed by an over the shoulder shot of me, who is playing the character who is in power and in control, this shot helps emphasize this idea of power. There is also a shot where the camera is looking down directly at James when I am speaking to show that he is weak and has no way to retaliate.

There is another shot where the camera is looking up at me, to emphasize my power.

The choices we made for shots were all very effective, as watching the scene effectively shows me as a character who is in charge, the character who is fully in control and in power, whereas for James, it effectively shows him as the helpless character who failed to carry out a task and will soon be facing the consequences. This accurately reflects the ideas we had down on our storyboard and as such we believe that we did a good job with the scene as a whole.

We captured the sound effectively because the speech during the dialogue is always clear. Given the fact that it is clear I believe that we utilized the sound equipment reasonably effectively. We successfully differentiated between diegetic and non diegetic sound because we show clear examples of both in our scene.

There is a part in our scene where I am speaking as James is leaving the room, the camera is not focused on me at this point, this shows us demonstrating off screen sound. The on screen sound being the dialogue between us when the camera is focused on us.

We had parallel sound in our video as the music playing matches the actions of our characters. We did not, however, show an example of contrapuntal sound because we believed that it could not be effectively utilized in our scene.

Seeing as the same song is playing throughout the entire clip, and the scene changes, we did show an example of a sound bridge.

Overall I believe our clip was very good, even though it was short, we showed all the key ideas that we had to show to meet the criteria while generally creating an interesting clip. The only obvious improvement to our clip is the inclusion of contrapuntal sound.