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.
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