The Accusation- Sound Exercise and Evaluation

The above clip from is the sound exercise me and my group created to show different sound techniques we have learnt in class. In this sequence the girl us being accused of breaking a fan which belonged to the boy who is seen walking in the room quite angered by the mistake made. As the argument progresses, you later see a man in hiding behind a table, who is actually the person who broke the fan. Youtube

We managed to include a good variety of techniques such as parallel and contrapuntal sound which is present throughout, we also managed on and off screen sound and diegetic and non-diegetic sound. However, we were unable to use a sound bridge as it didn't seem to work that well with what we were doing.

I think we captured the sound really well throughout all of the sequence as every recording we done came out really well and clear. The whole sequence went smoothly with the sound and we didn't have to redo scenes because we made sure everything went to plan. The sound equipment was really simple to use and the only trouble we had with it was forgetting to turn it on. When talking about diegetic and non-diegetic sound, we managed to differentiate between the two very well. The diegetic sounds were the running and the argument and the non-diegetic sounds were the crash and the music at the beginning. Me and my group successfully demonstrated the difference between on and off-screen sound in our film as we clearly demonstrated this with the off-screen crash and the on-screen argument. When it came to showing the difference between parallel and contrapuntal sound very well during our sound exercise. The parallel sound was very effective throughout the whole sequence as many sounds from the foot steps to the arguing were all very much parallel. Also the contrapuntal sounds were used quite well with the sound of the music at the beginning as it didn't really much the scene and also the sound of the crash because there was no object in the shot which could of caused a crash. In our short sequence we did not use a sound bridge, therefore it couldn't be used effectively.

Overall, I think the sound exercise we completed was fairly good as we able to show the differences between on and off-screen sound, parallel and contrapuntal sound and also diegetic and non-diegetic sound. We made sure the sound was at a good quality every time to shot as well so we could have a good piece of work to analysis. The only improvement I think we could have made was to include a sound bridge.