Task 2 Moving Image Sound Track Report

MOVIE TITLE: TRANSFORMERS (Opening Scene: Base Attack)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEfiR2asOJ4

Spoken Word: This scene contained mass amounts of conversation, the first main conversations are all formal. This introduces the audience to a world of authority and organisation. The dialogue involves soldiers talking to a senior officer on a military base. All the accents are american,you can clearly see that all the men are American Patriots, they are all speaking formally, this shows the audience who carries more authority among the characters and it dictates the seriousness of the situation. Another conversation takes place in the same scene between one of the soldiers and his wife. This introduces the audience to a different emotion, a more happy mellow family friendly scene. Of a solider talking to him wife and baby, it is a video call, that show cases a sense of realism in the movie. This mood doesn't last long once the base in under attack you can see that the characters are not happy, there is a scramble of network and they call out to one another as they loose signal. The audience has to feel sorry for the soldier beca because of an unknown source of energy, the dialogue changes along with the mood, panic and disbelief. 

Music: The music creates tension, it prepares the audience for action. At first it is slow pace, matching the sound of the helicopter. The sound is synchronous, the music matches the action that is going on. The music then changes and becomes more friendly when the family is on. This sets the mood for a more family friendly scene.
The music then changes back to more war-like music putting the audience back on edge. The music gets louder and stops as the action begins. The music continues as the characters establish that they are under attack. The music matches the mood of the scene. It creates tension especially in bits where it pauses this indicates the severity of the situation. All the music in the scene is non diegetic.

Sound Effects: The helicopter noises, the typing and the mumbling in the office are all diegetic sounds, they people in the film can hear them as well as the audience. All the sounds are realistic. During the video call, the background noises on the other end of the line included the sound of birds chirping. A more surreal environment for the mother and her child, showing the audience that they are well away from what is coming. 
Other sounds included robotic sounds, cocking and loading guns, explosions etc, all these sounds were diegetic showing the audience that they are in the middle of a war. 

SERIES TITLE:BURN NOTICE
Spoken Word: The main voice is a voice over of the main character who is not in the scene explaining whats going on. He is telling the audience why the team is going about the heist in that manner. This is non diegetic since he is not part of the scene the only people that can here him is the audience. This helps them understand what is going on in the scene. Behind the voice over, a conversation between the characters on the scene. You can tell by the manner in which they are talking that they know one another and have for a long while. One line includes them reminiscing something that happened in their past. When the heist is completed the person they have thwarted, you can tell they are angry by there tone of voice. He is not familiar with the people he just come into contact with. As for the good guys they use sarcasm and irony in their speech you can tell that they feel in control of the situation. This shows the audience that they have done what they came to do and confident that it has worked out.

Music: There is only non diegetic background music in the scene. The music creates intense suspense. The audience is kept on edge and as the action increases the music matches the scene and it creates a sense of excitement and thrill for the audience. When ever the characters in the scene spoke the music was muted. Apart from when the voice over is talking. But the music is constant through out the rest of the scene and the pace settles down once the heist is completed.

Sound Effects: The sound effects in the scene included people in the back ground. These sounds were diegetic. There was a non diegetic noise whenever the scene would change. This can be notified as a sound bridge because the sound links one scene to another. Other sounds included tires screeching, engines roaring and car doors slamming. These sounds were mainly for the audience but they were diegetic sounds.

These sounds did add mood and meaning to the scene such as excitement, thrill and tension. These are realistic sounds, these are sounds that you would expect to hear if this was going on in real life. Obviously it wouldn’t be as loud, but the volume of the sound effects adds on to the mood that the scene is set up to make the audience feel. Most if the diegetic sound effects are just to add a sense if realism to the programme.