Evaluation of Sound : Evaluation

Every film needs some sort of sound in the film. Sound is a crucial part of a film it gives the film atmosphere and builds tension for the audience. We were unable to use copyright sound therefore finding sound that fitted our trailer proved very difficult.



Pro's

• Once we had found suitable sound that fitted our trailer, timing it to our trailer was very hard. After this complete we had sound that was very effective and did what it needed to which is creating an atmosphere.

• For the beginning of the trailer we used slow tense/creepy non diegetic sound to set the scene for the audience of a couple moving to a new house and just trying to live a normal life, it was also used build up tension for them and create an uncomfortable atmosphere from the beginning.

• For the rest of the trailer including the montage we used upbeat tense non diegetic sound to create a tense atmosphere for the audience. We also used sound motif, every shot with the killers presence we used the upbeat tense non diegetic sound, to tell the audience that the man being shown is bad.

Cons

• Conversations that were filmed outside didn't come out clear due to the lack of equipment we had and therefore had to get removed from the trailer.

• I feel that we did not use as much diegetic sound as we could have, more sound of heavy breathing, running, screaming could along with the tense non diegetic sound could have made it a lot more tense for the audience.

• More choice of sound could have made are trailer perfect, but getting this sound would have cost us, but the lack of funds restricted us from this.

How we could improve

The main thing we could have improved on was using more diegetic sound to create an even bigger atmosphere than we did.

Using better equipment would allow us to hear everything very clearly and getting the best sounds to fit our trailer perfectly, but however this would cost us quite a lot.