Silent Cinema were never completely silent. hey used to have live musical accompaniment and sound effects.FUNCTION OF SOUD
Aural narrative (dialogue, v.o)
Sonic ambience (mood, atmosphere, sound effects)
Emotional or intellectual resonance or dissonance (music)
KEY ELEMENTS OF FILM SOUNDSpeech (dialogue, narration)
Ambient or natural sound
Sound effects
Musical score or soundtrack.
USE OF SOUND EFFECTS
Heighten drama - abstract or enhanced effects designed to affect audience perception or emotional state (e.g, audible heartbeats in horror films)
Simulate reality - ambient background that underscores and reinforces unity of Mise en scene and editing (e.g, traffic noise, chatter, room tone)
AESTHETIC USES OF SOUND
impressionistic - harmonious sound that evokes a mood, atmosphere or tone
Expressionistic - discordant sound that evokes abstract or dark psychological states
Asynchronous - sound and visual are mismatched for dramatic effects
Diegetic and non-diegetic
Diegetic - any sound that is intrinsic to the film space or implied by action (e.g, character speech, music performance)
Non-diegetic - any sound that is external to the film space (e.g, v.o, soundtrack music)
MUSIC ARE NARRATIVE DEVICE
Music underscored or accentuates visual narrative, emotion or drama
Can create emotional or intellectual resonance or dissonance.
Use of leitmotifs: a short, recurring musical phrase associated with a particular person, place or idea (e.g, Jaws theme, Darth Vader's march in Star Wars)
Pop songs as commentary/dramatic device: "When words fail, music speaks" -Hans Christian Andersen.
MODERNISM vs POSTMODERNISM
Modernism - an aesthetic and cultural reaction to classicism, relying on innovations in form, material and techniques to create new modes of rational and progressive expression and representation.Broadly ideologically utopian (e.g, Soviet montage)
Postmodernism - reaction to failure of modernism's objective rationalism. Playfully deconstructs form, fusing disparate elements of high and low culture (usually through homage or pastiche) and meta-reference (intertextual and self-referentiality)
Broadly ideologically disruptive (e.g, The Simpsons, Pulp Fiction)
USE OF NARRATION
First person subjective (monologue or contributors voice e.g, Jarman's blue)
'Voice of God' objective commentary (expository narrative: e.g, classic documentary)
Conventions of male vs female voices (dominant vs empathetic); RP vs regional (authoritative vs authentic)
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