Research into sound - Miss Miller

Sound

There are many sounds that are used to represent meaning and represent characters. These include: diegetic sound, non-diegetic sound, on-screen sound, off-screen sound, parallel sound, contrapuntal sound. All of the different sound types are important in a film as they create the effect on the audience, for example if they hear a fast paced non-diegetic sound, then they will be excited and the rate of the scene will move quick and make the audience wonder what is going to happen in the scene.

INSTERT CLIP

In a certain scene from Saw 4 the sound that is being played or that is being heard from the audience is on screen sound. The trapped victim is tied up in chains with his hands tied up to the side of a railing, so all his body weight is hanging on his arms, the sound coming from that is the chains rattling and shaking as the victim is trying to escape but the audience cannot see this yet. This relates to a thriller movie as it keeps the audience in suspense, the reason to this is because their is no background music being played in the scene and the only sound the audience is able to hear is the sounds coming from the victim. This is conventional to a thriller movie firstly because the audience cannot see the victim yet, so the on screen sound is enabling the audience to create images of a trapped victim.