P1. Understand how sound elements are used
This media product is a trailer for a new film called "Abduction", Its main purpose is to give the audience a small preview of the narrative and characters before the film is released. Many production companies do this as sparking an interest of a product for the audience before the release date, has shown greater chance of success as the audience has time to gather interest and purchase the product soon after the release date.
In this media product there are many different sounds such as, character's voices, background music, sound of fists and kicks and multiple slow motion effects. The background music isn't a piece of music that the audience would recognise, yet it goes well as it as it follows the action in the trailer, for example it begins with a high pitch that gives the audience the feeling that something isn't right, in the trailer, the character finds out is 2018 instead of 1885. For another example the music adds in drums and an electric instrument to add more action. The sound of slow motion makes the audience pay more attention to the visuals as something in slow motion such as a stunt maybe happening, this could be quite entertaining for the audience. |
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For this media product there isn't any clear purpose other than to entertain audiences on YouTube with a comedy sketch. Unlike many known western movies, this short film takes a different approach by adding a narrator that can be heard by both the audience and the characters in the short film, doing this adds a comedic effect to the situation presented in the film. The narrator is voiced by a known actor in the US called Nick Offerman, this can create a sense of familiarity for the audience with the unique kind of comedy used in this film. Interestingly as the narrator’s voice can be heard by both the characters and the audience, the voice doesn’t appear to be echoed or affected by its environment as the other voices do, this can also be seen in the form that all the characters present in the film, unsuccessfully look around to see where the voice is emitting from. Instead it can be heard clearly as if everyone who can hear the voice speak, is as if it was coming from within their head. This effect creates a more inclusive environment for the audience when hearing it.
Other than the voice, everything else is standard from the beginning, for example the establishing shots carried along with the establishing western front music to present what time and mood this film will be taking place. |
This media product is an advert by Tesco and its purpose is to both advertise the price drops and entertain the audience listening. In this advert there is no music or sounds other than the voices of two voice actors.
The first voice actor successfully entertains and advertises by mentioning the price drops while saying very quickly what has gone down in price. The speed can be heard as entertaining for the audience, specially for those who are younger as this is an advert for a family. |
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This media product is from a movie called "The Nun", which is a horror movie by the Conjuring franchise. As standard the scene starts with multiple establishing shots showing the cathedral and the characters along with some eerie music playing in the background, this can give a vulnerable effect for the audience as they will both pay more attention and understand something bad will occur when they least expect.
In this scene they are also presenting the new horror character "the nun", this character is presented with its own theme song which resembles the songs that were played in cathedrals in 700 AD. The song follows to be played multiple times in the movie every time the character makes an appearance. This gives the affect the audience that something bad is going to happen. |