Sound Exercise Media A Level

Sound Exercise 

In this sound exercise, the story line is about two characters from  East London do a bank robbery because one of the characters Wes on the right owed money to  Wayne who had to help with the robbery to get his money back which was £25,000.

The sound techniques we used were:
Non diegetic- For the music in the background where actors did not hear.
Diegetic sound- The actors speak and also the sound around the actors like the school kids in p.e.
Sound Bridge - i also added in music which carried on to another scene which then this was made into a sound bridge.

Rope

Rope Alfred Hitchcock Thriller

Rope is a thriller based on a real life murder story. The writer of this play were Hume Cronyn, the stars in this thriller was James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger. This is based on a true story which occurred in 1924. The film Rope was filmed in 1948 which had a budget of $1.5m. The film was filmed on one set which was the apartment the murders lived in which were Brandon and Philip.

The real killer were homosexual but also this film tries to give clues away that Brandon and Philip are also a homosexual couple because they live together and Brandon is more dominate over Philip which shows a relationship type of status. It was wrong in the 1940s to express homosexuality on TV or films because England in them times were more strict on the secular state they lived in which was christian catholic and it was too explicit they believe even if it was just acting and films.

Rope starts with a really strange  start you see the character David being killed straight away as the starter scene. This shows that Hitchcock wanted to get right into the story and it had a different type of narrative because the main killings normally happen in the middle or at the end and not the first scene and really early.

The film its self is suppose to be a 'continuous play' so he wanted it to be all one shot and no cut scenes. Film reels back then were only 10 minuets long which means when the reel came to an end he would slowly put the camera some where then bring it back up to not make it obvious that there was a break between the reels.

The coffin/chest is never out of the cameras shot and follows the actors that are around the coffin/chest area. The actors are trapped in one area and scene mainly and so the audience are trapped with them. Hitchcock knowing that the actors could do something out of their line by accident which could ruin the whole '' live theater'' idea  or if one of the actors open the chest it could end it straight away.  

As we see in this opening scene there is very mysterious music where you can hear the violins which try to bring out the intensity then you hear a scream before you see what has happened which creates a fear inside the audience.

Camera Exercise