Back-up for Darren's - Paul - Introduction

Situation- Your character is feeling stressed. Think of as many ways you can tell the audience this through sound alone.

Audience

Cinema VS High Street

- I believe that watching a film in the cinema would be better as the 5.1 is better as cinemas are an enclosed space with soft walls meaning the sound will bounce around. Also there is no background noise from the outside world meaning there is no interruptions. The acoustic quality is a lot better in this type of space. 

-  In contrast to watching a film in the cinema, watching one in the hughstreet means that the audience will only have a stereo type audio meaning that it may contain a hiss or be a bit tinny. The acoustic won't be as good as you will be able to hear background noises being in an open space. Also listening to it through headphones wont make the best connection between the audience and the film as there is going to be interruptions involving background noise from the general public.

Pearl Harbour - 00:25-01:25 minutes

Where and how the sounds you are hearing may have been recorded?
The sound of the aeroplane would probably have been recorded separately to the other sounds in this clip whereas the sounds of the boys making the gunshot noises and shouting at each other would have possibly been recorded live as it would have made it sound more natural. By filming them separately, they would have been able to have been edited separately, allowing the editor to mess about with the sounds, drowning it out as some points then bringing them back in. For these certain sounds, a boom microphone may have been used as they capture a specific sound instead of any distractions in the background. The music that is heard over the top of the visuals would have been added in, in the editing process as it is non-diegetic.

Why were they recorded in those places using those methods?
The sounds the two boys are making would have been recorded live as it makes it sound more natural. This probably would have been recorded all in one take meaning that the boys are just told to play around using certain lines from a script and do what boys to best. By recording the sound of the aeroplane separately, the editor is able to edit them separately so they can have more control over what sounds are played when. In this particular scene, the aeroplane sound is drowned out so the audience have to focus of the boys playing in a grounded plane whilst other planes fly around them.

What do those sounds tell you about the character, the story or the themes? What impact do they have on you? 
The sounds that the boys are making shows that they are just living their everyday lives showing that fighting the 'Japs' is part of their everyday life. This helps to make the film fit into the timezone they are aiming for. Making gunshot noises and shouting at each other to shoot on plane and another. This proves that the boys lives have been about the war, that they have grown up with it. The noise of the plane really makes the audience feel quite involved in the film, like they are there in the same place as the boys are. In that run down barn with the grounded plane. With the sound of the plane drowning out and coming back into the shot makes the audience feel like it is circling around them. The non-degetic soundtrack played really puts a happy mood into the film, fitting in with the fun look the boys are putting on war, it contrasts to the rest of the film. It could be said that it sets the audience up thinking this is going to be a happy look on a a tragic disaster meaning they will get a shock when it comes to the middle of the film when people begin to die and everything seems to get destroyed.

If those sounds had been recorded differently would they have had the same effect?  
If the same effects were played in a different way, i don't believe they would of had the same effect. If the sounds were all recorded live, the editor will have very little control over what sounds he can change to make the soundtrack more emotional. If the music was more processed, it would make the film become less realistic and less relatable to the audience.