Sound exercise evaluation

Our next media assignment was to film a sound exercise trying to use the different types of sound that can be found in the media.( Diegetic, Non-Diegetic etc).

The sequence that we filmed was supposed to tell the story of a person who comes in to a room, falls asleep has a nightmare and wakes up and leaves. It starts off with the character in a happy mood but then ends with them in a stressed and unhappy mood.

We did use most of the types of sound but however the ones that we did not use some because we could not find a way to put them in.

Non-Diegetic sounds were used quite a lot throughout the whole filming sequence, all of these Non-Diegetic sounds were also Parallel with the video. They were all pieces of music to go with the sequence. For example straight away we used a happy song to start off the film to try to get the audience into a happy feel toward the film. There was also tense music used to try to get the audience on the edge of their seat and finally we used somewhat some unnerving song at the end to finish off with an unsettling feel.

On and off screen sounds were also used throughout this piece of work, for example at the beginning of the dream there is some music playing the moment that the protagonist finds out that she is in a dream, which then turns into on screen sounds as we see the source of the music is a phone. More off screen sounds are found when there is a knock on the rooms door as well as when the character taps the table. There is also some on screen sound when there is a hand that bangs against some glass.

Overall I think that this project went well as we managed to use most of the sound techniques that we were asked to do but however for next time I would like to make an improvement that we would use all of the sound. I also think that we used the sound well to show the mood and the sounds were all captured properly and as well as we wanted them to.