Thursday, 9 October 2014


Sherlock Holmes sound analysis


Glossary

Diegetic Diegetic sound is any sound that emanates from the story (or narrative) world of a film, which is referred to in film studies as diegesis.
Non DiegeticNon-diegetic sound is sound whose origin is from outside the story world.
Ambient - Relating to or denoting advertising that makes use of sites or objects other than the established media (e.g. by placing slogans on the back of bus tickets).
SFX - The sound effects of the movie.
Mood A mood is an emotional state.
Tone - Tone in film is very hard to separate from mood, setting the tone with sounds is very similar to mood as it sets the scene for whats happening.
Genre - A style or category of art, music, or literature.
Theme music Theme music is a piece that is often written specifically for a radio programtelevision programvideo game or movie, and usually played during the intro, during title sequence and/or ending credits.
Voice over Voice-over (also known as off-camera or off-stage commentary) is a production technique where a voice—that is not part of the narrative (non-diegetic)—is used in a radiotelevision productionfilmmakingtheatre, or other presentations.
Musical Score -  Is original music written specific to accompany a film. The score forms part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects.
Synchronous soundSynchronous sound is sound that is matched to certain movements occurring in the scene e.g when footsteps correspond to feet walking.
Asynchronous sound - Are not matched with a visible source of the sound on screen. Such sounds are included so as to provide an appropriate emotional nuance, and they may also add to the realism of the film. For example: A film maker might  opt to include the background sound of an ambulance's siren while the foreground sound and image portrays an arguing couple. 
Contrapuntalcomposed of two or more relatively independent melodies sounded together.
Silence -   Is a film with no synchronised record sound, with no spoken dialogue.
Selective sound - Sound that focus on a particular character, to high light the scene.
Sound bridges -  Sound that begins with the carry-over sound from the previous scene before the new sound.




Sound is vibrations sound has pitch, rhythm, tempo, and volume. It resources, in film there types of sound diegetic and non diegetic. After watching a clip of Sherlock Holmes. In the scene I could hear sounds like:

  • Gun loading
  • Horse footsteps
  • Piano 
  • Glass broken
  • Fire
  • Crow 
  • Doors tweaking 
  • Gunshots
In the sherlock Holmes video the scene starts off with slow paced music then as the scene goes on the music get louder and faster they're also using classical music this is using non diegetic sound. in the scene you can also hear the horses moving and the sound of a bird and the man reloading his gun. Diegetic sound is any sound presented as originated from source within the films world. It can also be either on screen or off screen depending on whatever its source is within the frame or outside the frame. This type of sound can create many different meanings for an audience. Non diegetic sound is either visible on the screen nor has been implied to be present in the action. Non diegetic sound is represented as coming from a course outside its story space.
After watching the opening of the Sherlock Holmes clip, the diegetic sounds being made are the guns getting cocked and loaded, the chains rattling, the scream at the start, the horses hooves clanking together, the crow squawking, the boots rattling from when he jumps and the glass breaking.





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