Sound - Description, exercise and evaluation

Sound

In this section of my blog I have recorded a piece demonstrating a variety of different sound types such as diegetic,non diegetic, on and off screen sound, to show I have developed an level of understanding about each sound types and how to convey them in media, I then explained the different types of sound and why they are used within media.

Different types of sound

Diegetic sound
Sound that fits into the film which adds to the story line a example of this would be dialogue and sounds within the environment of the film that the characters can hear, we used a type of this sound called dialogue in our exercise, it was used to give the audience an idea of the story line.

Non-Diegetic sound
This is sound the characters in the film cannot hear, this type of sound is usually added to create  a atmosphere and to create a sense of tension to give the audience an idea on what is about to happen,
In our exercise we used this type of sound to create tension during the scene that the body guard stole the money, which was the main twist in our exercise.

Contrapuntal sound 
Is sound that does not fit into the situation for example sad types of music played at happy situations or vice versa an example of this would be playing sad music at a marriage, we did not include this in our exercise as we thought it would be confusing and take away from the experience.

Sound Bridge 
This type of sound is when the sound is carried from one scene to another, this helps continuity and overall the flow of the scenes.

Parallel sound 
This type of sound is opposite to contrapuntal sound, parallel sound fits in directly with the situation an example of this would be music that adds suspense in times that an event is about to happen, this is used a lot in horror films where the music changes before something happens which intended to scare you, we used this in our exercise when the body guard was stealing the money to add to the tension in the scene.

Sound is incredible significant in media productions as well as the type of sound used and the situation it was used in, as watching a film muted is nothing like watching it with the sound on full, the entire experience is different and the whole film is much more effective adding to the audience's empathy and enticing different emotions.

Evaluation
As this was our first time using the microphones I think we did fairly well as we managed to include most of the types of sound, although we could have improved by thinking more and having ideas on ways we could've added the parallel sound as well as the contrapuntal sound, therefore their is room for improvement and thats how we would improve.