Unit 16 LO2 (P2) Task One - Sound Elements Production Report on Experimenting and Producing sound

 

Unit 16: LO2 (P2)

Sound Elements Production Report on Experimenting and Producing sound.

What are Foley effects and Wild tracks.

Foley is a unique sound effect technique that involves creating and “performing” everyday sounds for movies and television shows. Foley artists create these sounds in a recording studio during post-production, in synchronisation with the video, to enhance the quality of the audio. Foley sound got its name from Jack Foley, the sound effects artists who developed and shaped the technique. Foley effects work both with and to replace the film sound recorded on set, which is known as the field recording. Most scenes use a combination of field recordings and foley effects. An example of Foley effects is in this clip of the ‘Ratatouille’. In this clip it shows Foley effects really well as it shows the video clip and how the effects are made, for example with a water bottle, something that taps on the table. These things can for some people be daily use, so things that are used daily for some people can create sound effects for different film like Ratatouille. On the other hand Wild tracks is something different to Foley effects but is still quite similar. Wild tracks are when something is recorded on set but without a camera, which is still recorded during the shooting period of time. But Foley effects are different because it is recorded separately and then added into the film during postproduction.

Theme music for title sequences

Theme music is used at the start of a film during the title sequence as something that could be memorable to the audience. Or in a series, it is always at the start of every episode, which like sets the audience in a good mood to enjoy the episode. One great example of Theme music for a title sequence is ‘Star Wars’, it has one of the most memorable music themes of all time, and anyone in the world could recognise it. This theme is literally the definition of how theme music is meant to be used; it hits all the right criteria.

Film Score

A film score is music that accompanies a film throughout the entirety of it. This music is played throughout the film during different times, in different situations in the film. One example of a film score is in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. In this clip from the start to 0:43, this in the music that is played throughout the film when the force is used by new and old characters to remember the force. This music is a combination of a smooth and a calm melody, for the regular audience of Star Wars if they were to hear this music going on, they would instantly feel intrigued and very into the story of the film as when this music plays that’s when something good happens, for example the protagonist has an outbreak and has new powers.

 

 

Character’s Signature tune

A character’s signature tune is a reoccurring musical phrase that is associated with a character to either bring out more of the character. One example of character signature tune is the “Imperial March, Darth Vader’s tune”. This music helps create Darth Vader as a more villainous character, as the music is quite violent with the drops it has in the music. One other thing that the imperial march does is, it also brings suspense to the character because in one of the films the imperial march plays every time Darth Vader walks off a ship and has his storm troopers around him. This is where the suspense comes from the music.

Incidental music

Incidental music is emotional music that helps that audience feel whatever emotions the film is giving or showing. One example of incidental music is in “The Titanic”, the I’m Flying scene. This scene makes the audience feel so romanticised. The audience feels very lonely if they don’t have a partner because the romance in the scene how the boy holds the girl there so she feels safe with his arms around her holding her so she thinks she’s flying. The Incidental music is done really well in this film, because the emotion that is shown throughout this scene is done really well and shown through the music and how soothing the melody is, it’s calm and slow, like a slow dance, which then shows the emotion of romance.

Voice-overs/scripted speech

A voice-over is most often used in a animation film, it is a piece of narration that is only audio recorder to then lay it over a video or film. And also a scripted speech could also be added into this to be put into with the voice-overs because there are quite a few combinations. One example of both is, the Zootopia film with Hopps last speech. This is an example of a scripted speech and a voice over. At 1:08-1:56 the voice actor of Judy Hopps is shown. She is shown to be reading off a script with her fellow voice actors next to her also looking at the script, so in all of this, this is a voice-over with a scripted speech.