In Boys n the hood, the film aesthetic, sound, contributed significantly to the overall story as well as capturing the audience’s attention for, what can be, an uncomfortable topic to face for some people. The film relied on sound to set up the audience awareness and audience expectations of what was to come. For example, the constant repetition of the whirring of the helicopter always brought the audience back to the cold reality that even when Tre or Ricky’s mind wandered in what could happen with the prospect of escaping out of South Central, they are harshly brought back to reality by the roaming spotlight and whirring of the rotors. The constant sounds of the helicopter overhead and police sirens all around helped construct the audience’s awareness of the neighborhood they were being injected into. This helped from the very beginning of the film to immerse the audience in the dangerous yet, surprisingly, relatively unknown to the outside world at the time the film was produced.
Another aspect of the film that sound helped develop was the audience’s
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When Tre is being dropped off at his father’s house and the audience is introduced to doughboy and Ricky. Here the way that doughboy talks compared to Ricky and Tre foreshadows how the individuals in the group have a very different future ahead of them. Doughboy spoke to Tre’s father with a lot of slang, curse words and overall a disrespectful attitude towards the adult. Tre however is the complete opposite of Doughboy, talking in eloquent sentences and overall very respectful of his father when he is asked to clean the yard. This theme continues throughout the entire film and is highlighted again when the neighborhood is celebrating doughboy’s release from jail with a barbeque. Tre tells the men at the party to be gentlemen and let the ladies eat first. Doughboy immediately agrees but calls the ladies
The sound effects grabbed my attention and continued to make me yearn for what could come next. The sounds bring me to a place where I can’t help but believe in the situation that’s happening. The music heightens my mood and helps create illusion. For example, the first extraordinary sound technique I noticed that the filmmaker used was the echo effect. It was not only used to support the mood the characters were at, but also to express that idea of the ‘emptiness’ in them. This technique dominated the audio when I was taken to a story in the film of a boy who was 18 and poisoned by his own sister. Those are some of the dominant examples of sound usage throughout the movie The Poisoners Handbook. The entirety of the soundtrack is a solid cocoon for the film to stretch and grow
destruction seen in the film into their own lives, by using familiar, mundane sounds that make a
The film that interested me for this assignment was “Boyz n the Hood”. The movie was about a Los Angeles neighborhood expanding of drug and gang culture, with increasingly tragic results. It was about how one teen had family support to guide him on the right path in life regarding the social problems around him. The other two teens in the film wasn’t as fortunate and fell into the social problems of drugs, violence, and gangs; where one ended up dead.
In conclusion Boyz N the Hood is a solid example of the everyday struggle and the lack of urban planning. The lack of planning leads to poverty and low income families flooding these areas and ghettos. The low income and poverty is the direct cause to crime and gang violence, which affects the families and the generations to come. The lack of father figures and horrible youth environment is no place for kids to grow up in. This whole cycle leads to bad behavior and a continual problem that will take generations easy to fix.
As, the scene fades back from black, non-diegetic sound takes place as the background sound source. Sound that hasn't been implied to be present in the action: added for the dramatic effect. The suspense in the scene is constructed from this sound. Furthermore, props throughout this movie are essential, the audience are
The sequence selected from The Orphanage was the ‘bathroom sequence’, which focus on the protagonist Laura, who is plated by Belen Rueda. In this sequence sound plays quite a significant part. Without sound, there would be no suspense or fear in the film. With all the elements in film and with sound added creates terror among audiences. In the sequence, both diegetic and non-diegetic sound is illustrated. At the beginning of the scene, there is children laughing, however when Laura walks inside the laughter begins to echo and the music starts to fade away. This embodies an idea of the spirits becoming awake in the house, as it starts to become silent and whenever the house is silent, the ghosts begin to appear. In this sequence, sound also contrasts with the lig...
In conclusion, I have demonstrated how Coppola exploits a wide array of sound and editing to create suspense, intensity, and anxiety in the sequence to affect the audience’s emotions, using diegetic ambient sound effects, non-diegetic music, voice over and four editing types. With this sequence, Coppola has shown the savagery of war and our complicity in this violence as an audience.
What if I told you that I know the outcome of your life and where you will end up before you even know it? Wouldn’t you be scared? See for a regular person who has a supporting family around them this question will almost feel almost like a death sentence. Nobody wants anyone to judge them before they even go through life on what they will end up being.
Music can decipher a narrative event by indicating a perspective. To unify a set of diverse images and provide rhythmic and formal continuity and momentum, a film’s structure is more often than not, directly articulated by a musical structure. Music can assist the dialogue and visuals of film and often is inaudible (e.g. music is meant to be heard unconsciously, not consciously). Music has been used by directors to reinforce or strengthen certain weak scenes in film and then on the other hand when music is not needed to reinforce a scene
...successful collaboration of sound, colour, camera positioning and lighting are instrumental in portraying these themes. The techniques used heighten the suspense, drama and mood of each scene and enhance the film in order to convey to the spectator the intended messages.
The sounds used in cinema have the ability to alter how we perceive what we are viewing. In Andrea Arnolds film, Fish Tank, she uses sound to draw the audience into Mia’s journey through self-development in lower class Britain. The background noises are emphasized throughout the film which creates a sense of realism as we feel like we have been thrown into Mia’s world. These consistent white noises engulf Mia and accentuate her isolation and vulnerability through the lack of privacy she sustains. Additionally, without a soundtrack, we are not told how to feel, instead, we must decipher that for ourselves. Both these points build on the sense of realism that is created by the sound devices used in the film and will further be discuThe sounds
As an audience we are manipulated from the moment a film begins. In this essay I wish to explore how The Conversation’s use of sound design has directly controlled our perceptions and emotional responses as well as how it can change the meaning of the image. I would also like to discover how the soundtrack guides the audience’s attention with the use of diegetic and nondiegetic sounds.
The sound is mostly diegetic and relies on sound effects to create an aural landscape. This is effective because when this style of sound is supplemented with the camerawork Cuaron uses, the scene expands beyond the boundaries of the frame, and the viewer is placed in the world of the film. For example, in the opening scene, the diegetic sound of the television is heard in the café and subdued city sounds are heard outside, which opens the world to the viewer beyond the café. When Theo walks outside, the city sounds become louder, as they would if the viewer was following Theo’s movements. These sounds become constant and a part of the scene, which makes the explosion, which occurs moments later, jarring, not only because it is a sudden addition to the constant city sounds, but also because the explosion has a much higher volume. In addition to sound effects, the score is also a key component of the sound of Children of Men. The score of the film is used to highlight emotions in certain scenes, although it is used sparingly. The slight usage of the score and a focus on diegetic sound effects places the viewer effectively into the experience of the characters as if they were experiencing these events themselves. However, the score serves a purpose as well. One of the key components of the score is the usage of human vocals. This creates a directly human presence in the score, which
... movie. During the chase scenes dramatic and heart pumping music makes the audience feel as if they were involved in the actual chase.
Sound is important in film and how it is used to drive a narrative progression. I will analyse how and why in this essay. Covering the history of sound in films and the essential component it plays in the film industry.