Glossary Of Sound Terms For Tv Drama from raybloggs

Sarah Connor Chronicels

 

 

How is Sound used to represent gender in this short extract?

Short version

There is a voice over from the start which is a females voice as you can tell by the light tone of her voice telling a story of true life of her and her son, the music changes the atmosphere of the tone of her voice with the music making the dialog emotional. Her tone starts to become stronger with the music starting to beat louder which indicates that there is danger a head of her. When Sarah is in the school looking for john her tone to her voice has changed to demanding with the sound of the music being quickened to show panic that she is in a rush with her son, the tone of her voice shows her character being strong person. The fast pacing music also shows danger is after them sound bridging was used.

The fast pacing tension is broken by the diegetic sound of a police man’s booming voice through a megaphone with a calm demanding tone to get the situation under control. The sound is then ambient to show the situation is under control with no music which makes the scene natural with the sound of dogs barking in the background and with the diegetic sounds hightend to make them stand out to what is happening on screen. The sound then goes back to non-diegetic as she has a scenes of danger that might be imitate with the loud beating happening a man walks along which shows that he is powerful as the music is representing him as he continues to walk toward Sarah and John. The diegetic sound has yet again broken the non-diegetic sound with the sirens of the cop car.

Sound effects break the sound of silent with sounds of a gun being loaded and shot by the guy the sound is self has also been heightened to make it sound more powerful which also shows that the man has a lot of power at his hands and can do anything with it. The sound is then changed to non-diegetic with a light and hopeful music playing ro show that Sarah will be lucky to come out of this or this could show that she hopes the man doesn’t kill her or her son with the sound of urgency kicking in when she tries to escape out of the police car to help her son.

Sound has a way of showing emotions, also showing how people can be shown as dominant characters with the man coming towards Sarah and John. Sound also presents hope of people shown when Sarah tries to escapes to help her son.   

Romeo and Juliet

How are the two gangs represented in Romeo and Juliet

The two gangs are shown differently. The Montages boys are more playful and immature which is shown well by the simplicity of the colours for example the colours that the boys wear are brightly coloured which implies they are simple and childlike as children like bright and simple colours. Luhrman tries to make us believe that the Montages are the good people when he puts us in a place when one of the Montague boys breaks the forth wall and tries to make us feel like one of them in the car that they are driving in. The diegetic sound comes from the car how I know this is by the way they bounce around in the car to the beat of the music which is loud energetic which describes the boys as a hole.

The Capulet’s are shown more as respected people as they don’t like to be disrespected for no reason they expect an answer that is suitable to why they are dis respected shown well when Abra is on the attack to one of the Montages boys with a close up of Abra shouting at him to show his expression on his face, the sound being more serious music as they are serious people in this town. With their cloths being darker then the Montagu’s this shows us that they are more powerful and more complex people  who know where they are going in life instead of looking like the Montagu’s who have brightly coloured cloths which look like they have been chosen by their parents.

Later on when there is a gun fight going on there is a low angle shot showing Tybolt which suggests that he is powerful and in charge of the others in his group as there is no other low angle shot of any of the other Capulet’s.

The eye line shots between the two characters Tybolt and Benvolio shows the expressions on their faces, it shows that Benvolio is worried as he knows what is going to happen and he doesn’t want any of it to happen, from Tybolts view shows that he has the upper hand as he isn’t worried at all by his facial expressions  

Rocky 4 question

The camera shots consists of mostly close ups, mid shots, full shots and wide shots that where mainly focused on Rocky and Drago as they are the two that only matter as they are the ones who are in the fight to fitness in this section of the film. The close ups are used mostly to show what part of the body they are working out on. Theses shots are used mostly to show the stress of their muscles to show that they are being worked on, Extreme close ups are used as well especial to show the facial expressions of the two of them lifting something heavy you would know that it was heavy by the way their faces are tightened up and restrained this is shown well when Drago is a 1, 2 press with a dumbbell bar. The angles that were used was mostly low and high angles but there was an eye level shot that was very cleaver as when Drago is punching to the right of the shot its edited by a cross cut to show rocky chopping down a tree by swinging to the left of the shot this shows that they are fighting each other even though they are not even is the same room. The movement that is mostly used is a tracking shot to show both of them running to show the speed of them running towards their own personal goals.

The composition of the working out section is easy to understand as they are only working out and there is no need for any of it to be in order as there isn’t any particular way to work out, the way they used the composition was clever as would use a cross cut to edit from scene to scene to show the same thing but done in different ways for example: Drago is running on a running machine and the angle is increased make him work more, like he is running up a mountain, they then used a cross cut to Rocky running up a mountain to show the comparison between the two of them basically montage editing, this shows Drago as a machine then a human being by using machinery to calibrate him, compared to Rocky he is using nature to his advantage. Slow motion is used o show the powerful running that the two of them do.

All of the sound is diegetic accept from the music which is non-diegetic. The diegetic sound that is heard mostly by the audience would be the moaning and groaning of the two men being pushed hard working there musicals to their limits. When the non-diegetic sound kicked it made the scenes more powerful as the music complements what is on the screen.   

Key Media Concepts

Key Media Concepts (TV Drama)

The purpose of these units is first to assess candidates’ media textual analysis skills and their
understanding of the concept of representation using a short unseen moving image extract (AO1,
AO2); second to assess candidates’ knowledge and understanding of media institutions and their
production processes, distribution strategies, use of technologies and related issues concerning
audience reception and consumption of media texts (AO1, AO2):

 

The examination is two hours (including 30 minutes for viewing and making notes on the moving
image extract) and candidates are required to answer two compulsory questions. The unit is
marked out of a total of 100, with each question marked out of 50.
There are two sections to this paper:

Section A: Textual Analysis and Representation (50 marks)

Section B: Institutions and Audiences (50 marks)

 

Section A: Textual Analysis and Representation

An ‘unseen’ moving image extract with one compulsory question dealing with textual analysis of

various technical aspects of the languages and conventions of moving image media. Candidates
will be asked to link this analysis with a discussion of some aspect of representation within the
sequence.

 

The moving image extract will be provided by OCR in DVD format, with full instructions for the
administration of the examination, viewing conditions and note-making time. Centres must prepare
candidates in advance of the examination, using a range of examples from texts from the genre
stated below, to demonstrate textual analysis of all of the following technical areas of moving
image language and conventions in relation to the unseen extract:

 • Camera Angle, Shot, Movement and Composition

• Mise-en-Scène

• Editing

• Sound

 

The focus of study for Section A is the use of technical aspects of the moving image medium to
create meaning for an audience, focussing on the creation of representations of specific social
types, groups, events or places within the extract. It is not necessary to study the history of the
genre specified. Centres should use examples of the genre specified with their candidates to
prepare them for undertaking unseen textual analysis.
For examination from 2014:
The unseen moving image extract will be four to five minutes long and will be from the following
genre:

TV Drama

The sequence will be taken from a contemporary one-off drama or series or serial drama

programme scheduled on British television stations including some sourced from other countries.
Guidance is given below regarding the administration of the examination. There will be viewing and
note-making time for Section A. The timings and rules for viewing of extract and note-making will
be explained.

 

Set Topic Content

The content below represents what candidates should learn and is also provided as the source of
the questions in the examination papers.

 

Section A: Textual Analysis and Representation

Candidates should be prepared to analyse and discuss the following: technical aspects of the
language and conventions of the moving image medium, in relation to the unseen moving image
extract, as appropriate to the genre and extract specified, in order to discuss the sequence’s
representation of individuals, groups, events or places:

 

Camera Shots, Angle, Movement and Composition

• Shots: establishing shot, master shot, close-up, mid-shot, long shot, wide shot, two-shot, aerial

shot, point of view shot, over the shoulder shot, and variations of these.

• Angle: high angle, low angle, canted angle.

• Movement: pan, tilt, track, dolly, crane, steadicam, hand-held, zoom, reverse zoom.

• Composition: framing, rule of thirds, depth of field – deep and shallow focus, focus pulls.

 

Editing

• Includes transition of image and sound – continuity and non-continuity systems.

• Cutting: shot/reverse shot, eyeline match, graphic match, action match, jump cut, crosscutting,

 parallel editing, cutaway; insert.

• Other transitions, dissolve, fade-in, fade-out, wipe, superimposition, long take, short take, slow

motion, ellipsis and expansion of time, post-production, visual effects.

 

Sound

• Diegetic and non-diegetic sound; synchronous/asynchronous sound; sound effects; sound

motif, sound bridge, dialogue, voiceover, mode of address/direct address, sound mixing, sound

perspective.

• Soundtrack: score, incidental music, themes and stings, ambient sound.

 

Mise-en-Scène

• Production design: location, studio, set design, costume and make-up, properties.

• Lighting; colour design. 

 

It is acknowledged that not every one of the above technical areas will feature in equal measure in

any given extract. Therefore examiners are instructed to bear this in mind when marking the
candidates’ answers and will not expect each aspect will be covered in the same degree of detail,
but as appropriate to the extract provided and to the discussion of representation.

 

Candidates should be prepared to discuss, in response to the question, how these technical

elements create specific representations of individuals, groups, events or places and help to
articulate specific messages and values that have social significance. Particular areas of
representation that may be chosen are:

• Gender

• Age

• Ethnicity

• Sexuality

• Class and status

• Physical ability/disability

• Regional identity

Glossary Of Editing Terms