Diagetic/ Non-diagetic Sound:
In the film industries, several different types of sound is used. These are, diagetic, non-diagetic and Foley sound. Diagetic sound is sound that's source is visible on screen or if a sound is made by someone doing a certain action on screen, or any sound that is caused by an action in the scene.
Sound can alternate depending on the scenario/ situation. An example of this is the used of sound and music in action scenes. Music is used in scenes to change the audiences emotions when watching a certain scene. In Jaws for example music is used to create suspense as the Jaws music is only used when an attack is imminent. Whereas say, in a romantic scene, slower and more calm music is used to slow down the scene, making it less tense and loud.
Foley sound can also be used to cover up any unwanted sound in a scene. Sometimes sound that may appear to be diagetic and on the scene may change to become non diagetic, an example of this would be someone talking with a cut to another location or scene with the narration still going on. Most television shows have their own theme song that everyone would know that plays before and after the episode and sometimes in the episode to highlight certain scenes to make them seem more important to the story of it, an example of this is Game of Thrones. On the other hand sometimes no music is played to make every sound that does happen louder, building tension as when something important happens in films and television you expect music to play reflecting the mood of the scene, with no music however you don't know how to feel, making the viewer seem even more unsure as to what will occour. when music is played like this it is non diagetic sound unless it is being made in the world of the film.
Foley sound can also be used to cover up any unwanted sound in a scene. Sometimes sound that may appear to be diagetic and on the scene may change to become non diagetic, an example of this would be someone talking with a cut to another location or scene with the narration still going on. Most television shows have their own theme song that everyone would know that plays before and after the episode and sometimes in the episode to highlight certain scenes to make them seem more important to the story of it, an example of this is Game of Thrones. On the other hand sometimes no music is played to make every sound that does happen louder, building tension as when something important happens in films and television you expect music to play reflecting the mood of the scene, with no music however you don't know how to feel, making the viewer seem even more unsure as to what will occour. when music is played like this it is non diagetic sound unless it is being made in the world of the film.
Foley Sound:
Foley sound was invented by jack donovan foley in 1927 when he started working in 1914 with universal studios on silent films. Foley sound is where sound would be recorded separately from the film or what it is being used for and is edited over the footage you are using to make the sounds seem louder and sharper.
These were first used for movies but are now used in all types of things, like modern television and now due to the use of foley sounds it it used a lot in video games now too. In movies foley sound is more commonly used in war films seen as there is a lot going on at once it is needed to make certain actions stand out and make them seem more important, in these types of films the gunshots are normally foley sound as they sometimes don't use real guns. However in the film Heat the director decided to use blanks and kept all of the gunshots in to add to the chaos of the scene, making it feel out of control and dangerous.
These were first used for movies but are now used in all types of things, like modern television and now due to the use of foley sounds it it used a lot in video games now too. In movies foley sound is more commonly used in war films seen as there is a lot going on at once it is needed to make certain actions stand out and make them seem more important, in these types of films the gunshots are normally foley sound as they sometimes don't use real guns. However in the film Heat the director decided to use blanks and kept all of the gunshots in to add to the chaos of the scene, making it feel out of control and dangerous.
Exercise:
In this exercise we are making Foley sound to go over a clip. For this we will use certain objects to create sound that could reflect what is happening on the clip, By throwing things off of a table for example, or by swirling water to create the feel that someone is making soup. After making all of the sound we will dub it over the video in final cut pro.
We will make these sounds by using a recorder and the resources available to create suitable sounds for the clip we are doing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6ldWszaMiU
I think that the foley sound that we made for the clip did enhance the video and the story telling, but i feel there could be improvements. The fact it was made on final pro was i think took some time getting used to as neither of us had loads of experience editing on it, but despite this i think that we did a good job adding the sounds we recorded at the right time in the clip, but, when recording the tumbling sound at the end of the video we had to record it indoors because of the background noise of the wind was interfering so recording sound indoors caused an alteration in the sounds that we wanted as the sound we recorded at the end had echoes in the background and was also recorded on a hard surface instead of dirt, changing the sound and making it sound less gritty because if we successfully recorded the sound first time, on dirt the sound in the video would alternate more, instead of being just a flat sound. We used music from safari when finished to fill in some of the parts of white noise and to make the video seem calmer and more interesting to watch.
We also got a sound of a car breaking for when the roadrunner runs past and runs off of the shot, we also used a very short sound of the sound the roadrunner makes in the cartoons for the ending.
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