Sound

 

There are multiple different types of sound that are used over videos to create an atmosphere or feeling and or even affect, we use enhanced sound over certain moments in a shot as this makes the scene feel more real an example of this would be when a door is creaking in a horror film, this tells us the house is old and it creates a dark and scary atmosphere.  Sound can be used in multiple different ways such as using sound bridges, sound bridges allow us to easily b taken in and out of different scenes, they are one of the most commonly used transitions in the continuity editing style. There are two main types of sound diegetic and non-diegetic sound, diegetic sound is sound that is heard by the character in the scene and us as an audience, then there is non-diegetic sound, sound that is heard only by the audience and not the characters on screen. Pleonastic sound is another type of sound where a sound in a clip is enhanced overly for an effect e.g creaking floorboards, a technique used for this kind of sound is Foley sound, it is important not to get confused between sound in a recording/ production and sound that is added post-production. Parallel sound is another type of sound that matches what is going on, on-screen, this effect is called parallel sound. Contrapuntal sound is sound that doesn't really easily match the image represented, this can create an effect that can be quite disorientating for the audience this can also make the audience question what they are seeing. Finally, there is synchronous sound and asynchronous sound, synchronous sound is caused by some event on screen so that sound matches the action being done and then there is asynchronous sound that is, separated from the visual, examples of this can be voice over or dialogue from another scene. 

In the video, above I have experimented with layering sound, I have made the sound classical and dramatic as this matches the effect I wanted for the scene. I have enhanced the sound of the door slamming as this creates a more dramatic effect and lets the viewer know that the tailor room is a different room in the building. I have used GarageBand to create this piece.