Imagine your favourite film without a sound, it is possible that your favourite film would not have the same effect if it does. Sound has several functions that are meaningful, they can impact the mood; enhance the storytelling, creating an atmosphere; and create a sense of continuity. It is aimed to impact the audience 's experience with the film. Having sound in films can make a mediocre film into a great one. There are two categories of sound in Film: Diegetic and Non-Diegetic. Diegetic Sound is audio elements that come from the world we see projected. Non-Diegetic Sound is audio elements that come from the real world. Sound is made up of three factors: dialogue, sound effects, and music, but is most commonly know for music. Dialogue
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The added music affects the audience 's emotions, it can make you feel sad at one scene and scared in another. Sound can also create an atmosphere of time and place for your film as well. Background music can be used connect motifs or ideas to different scenes in a film. Before the technology was invented, pianist or orchestras would be hired to mute out the sound of the projectors, but later evolved to much more. Music tried to make up for the absence of speech. Soundtracks in Film were produced by the phonograph, a device invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison. Edison 's phonograph was the first to be able to reproduce the recorded sound while other inventors had produced devices that could only record sounds. In 1927, the first feature-length Hollywood "talkie" film The Jazz Singer directed by Alan Crosland made a historic milestone in film. With the Vitaphone sound system, Warners was able to sound-synchronize, have music accompaniment and spoken dialogue in the film. From the moment cinema has introduced sound to films, soundtracks have been essential elements in the filmmaking …show more content…
By providing us with certain music we can guess the location of a scene. For example, if we hear some electronic music we would think of a Sci-fi film set in the future. A good example of an atmosphere of time and place through music is the final scene of The Good,The Bad, And The Ugly we hear strong western cowboy music with an influence of latin music. The music in this final scene sounds like the typical tumbleweed type of music. Viewers get a sense that this takes place in the deserted west because it was most commonly used back when Western film was popular. Music can build a sense of continuity to connect certain scenes together to form a sequence. It can also be used to indicate something that tells the audience to expect something that was previously shown that had the same music. Most used in montage scenes where music may connected scenes from getting lost. An example of continuity of scenes can be shown by the film Friday the 13th with each death scene there is a high pitch sound each time a character
The added music affects the audience 's emotions, it can make you feel sad at one scene and scared in another. Sound can also create an atmosphere of time and place for your film as well. Background music can be used connect motifs or ideas to different scenes in a film. Before the technology was invented, pianist or orchestras would be hired to mute out the sound of the projectors, but later evolved to much more. Music tried to make up for the absence of speech. Soundtracks in Film were produced by the phonograph, a device invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison. Edison 's phonograph was the first to be able to reproduce the recorded sound while other inventors had produced devices that could only record sounds. In 1927, the first feature-length Hollywood "talkie" film The Jazz Singer directed by Alan Crosland made a historic milestone in film. With the Vitaphone sound system, Warners was able to sound-synchronize, have music accompaniment and spoken dialogue in the film. From the moment cinema has introduced sound to films, soundtracks have been essential elements in the filmmaking …show more content…
By providing us with certain music we can guess the location of a scene. For example, if we hear some electronic music we would think of a Sci-fi film set in the future. A good example of an atmosphere of time and place through music is the final scene of The Good,The Bad, And The Ugly we hear strong western cowboy music with an influence of latin music. The music in this final scene sounds like the typical tumbleweed type of music. Viewers get a sense that this takes place in the deserted west because it was most commonly used back when Western film was popular. Music can build a sense of continuity to connect certain scenes together to form a sequence. It can also be used to indicate something that tells the audience to expect something that was previously shown that had the same music. Most used in montage scenes where music may connected scenes from getting lost. An example of continuity of scenes can be shown by the film Friday the 13th with each death scene there is a high pitch sound each time a character