Sound Exercise

Sound Exercise

 Our task was to film a sequence of scenes and include all the different types of sounds used in movies. The sounds that we used were:non-diagetic sound, off-screen sound, on-screen sound, parallel sound, pleonastic sound (door slam), ambient sound(empty room).  
 We used off-screen sound, ( off-screen voice- "well look who it is") to make the viewer question who the voice belongs to and makes the atmosphere mysterious. We used pleonastic sound, (Loud door slam off-screen) we put this at the beginning straight after the non-diagetic voice over, to grab the viewers interest.

 Some of the sound that we captured could have been improved, for example during the off-screen sound, you can hear talking from outside the room. To records the voice over that we put at the start of the film was used with a recording device that we had to take to a quiet room to record with as it could pick up any surrounding sound. 
 Every time we had to record, we checked that you couldn't hear any surrounding sound such as footsteps and talking as the microphone we used can also pick up any surrounding sound and it would ruin the footage if there was any other sound in the recording.The most positive elements of our film in my opinion were the off-screen and non-diagetic sounds. To improve we could have used sound bridges and contrapuntal sounds.