You will submit a two-page reflection on Terence Davies’ The Long Day Closes (1991) 1. How does the film use diegetic and non-diegetic sound? Choose two sce

You will submit a two-page reflection on Terence Davies’ The Long Day Closes (1991)

1. How does the film use diegetic and non-diegetic sound? Choose two scenes.

2. How does the film use fades, cuts, match cuts, and other editing tools to shape your two scenes?

Write your paper in APA format (Cover Page/Abstract/Reflection/References)
Please be sure to check the credits for artist names and pop song titles. If you allude to any music, you MUST name the tune — even classical pieces.
Do not use terms like “personally,” “I think,” or “I feel.”
Do not write a review of the film.
Don’t use the first person point-of-view.

Avoid a casual, chatty, gossipy tone.

REFERENCES:

The rapturous, radical cinema of Terence Davies

Attached Powerpoint Slides Chapter 6: Sound

MOVIE LINK: https://www.criterionchannel.com/the-long-day-closes

SoundDesign.ppt

Chapter 6: Sound

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Contemporary Sound Design

Digital approaches help w/complex sound editing
Bass or low frequency sound is an aggressive part of contemporary sound design
Sound design is often subliminal (not overtly noticed by viewers)

Evolution of Film Sound

1930s-1970s
Optical track, usually monaural
1950s
Magnetic stereo track on select widescreen films
1976
Dolby Stereo four-channel matrix
1992-1999
Six-channel digital track (Dolby, DTS, SDDS)
1999 – Present
Seven-channel digital track
“Lossless” formats – Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD MA

Figure 6.1, 6.2

Types of Sound

Dialogue
Speech
Voice-over narration
ADR and Dialogue Mixing
Sound effects
Ambient sound
Foley
Music

Foley Technique

Live performance and recording of sound effects in sync w/picture
Example: walking across bare floor in hard shoes in sync w/character .
Apocalypse Now (1979): Walter Murch
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991): layered sound of two-by-fours slapping in garage to “fatten” gun sounds in garage.

Functions of Movie Music

Setting the scene
Adding emotion
Serving as background filler
Creating continuity
Emphasizing climaxes/catching the action

Diegetic vs Non-Diegetic

Diegetic: origins within the story world of film; can include dialogue and sound effects.
If a character plays music within a scene, that’s diegetic.
Non-diegetic: outside the story world.
When score or songs imposed, that’s non-diegetic.

Diegetic Music

Back to the Future (1985, dir. Robert Zemeckis).

Non-diegetic Music

The Great Gatsby (2013, dir. Baz Luhrman).

Sound Design

Blends realistic and synthetic sounds
Differences between sound and image
Perception of image and sound
Structuring time; viewers perceive images as moving forward unambiguously
Codes:
The sound hierarchy (voice, effects, music presented in carefully regulated volumes).
Sound perspective (correspondences w/viewer’s acoustic perception of space).
Sound bridges
Off-screen sound
Sound montage

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