Sound Exercise/Media Studies

Sound Exercise/Media Studies

In this sound exercise we have worked on diegetic and non-diegetic sounds. What diegetic sounds refers to the world of text and some examples of this would sound effects, music with a source within text like a radio. What non-diegetic sounds refers to everything outside the world of text for example voiceover, soundtrack and captions. We used an example of non-diegetic sounds at the start of the video clip by adding music in that Billy or Destiny could not hear.

In this clip we used a microphone on a boom pole to record a conversation between Billy and Destiny. Dara’s job was to hold the boom pole pointing towards the speaker whilst holding out of the cameras way.  The reason why it was done like this is so the microphone was not seen in the video clip.

During the recording there was dialogue, a conversation in between two people. What this was diegetic sound, this is because Billy and Destiny could hear each other talking as well as the audience.

We also used of screen sound, this is sound we can hear and know what it is without having to see it. We used this for the gun shot sounds and police sirens sounds at the end of the video. The way we did this was buy taking the sounds and adding it into the video when editing.

What we could improve on is making this more interesting than having two people having a conversation. I also need to work on my camera work when it comes to rolling shots because in this video if we see the rolling shot, you can see that there needs a lot of improvements which are needed in the camera work.