Friday 3 October 2014

TASK 2 Sound Production - Dave Star wars analyse

The Star Wars is the film who was directed and written by George Lucas and the film was made in 1977. 

Stars Wars is hybrid sci-fi genre, action and adventure film which presents characters Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Chewbacca and Princess Leia. The part of the narrative is that they trying to escape form empire and they run and they found the enter the trash compactor and trying avoid getting crushed and killed by the mysterious monsters one the the character drown in to water and he trying to survive and get out of this situation and they were attacked by a dianoga, which were known to live in garbage compactors (Trash compactor). Luke Skywalker was almost killed when the dianoga and took him underwater and this what I explain before, The trash compactor it start to close and is nowhere to runaway, Han Solo stop the walls with a metal bar, D2DR - decodes computer system and whole system stops and they survive.


The diegetic sound that we can hear is the voices of characters of Chewbacca, Sky Walker, Han Solo, Luke and Princess Leia. The diegetic sound is coming from dialogue and everything start from when they drop to crash compactor. To record the vocals to Star Wars film I think they used dynamic microphones and soundproof room. Chewbacca voice is the diegetic sound and actually he dialogue doesn't haven any spoken words, and he have to be more clearer than the others, also the sound of guns that are fired by the stormtroopers are diegetic sound, I think the sound was created by the foley artists in soundproof studio to create the gun sound and also the laser sound.

What interest me very much is R2-D2 and C-3PO and I was thinking a lot and I think they are both diegetic sound, I know you can not see any lip-syncing only you can hear that they making sound and also say that it can be non-diegetic sound, but what is important that you can see characters and also you can hear them speaking, so it would count to diegetic sound, where I think that the voice of C-3PO was recorded in the studio where they pitched so he has robot like vocal C-3PO is an android and R2-D2 voices were created by a analog synthesizer so that the voice will have highly qualified in vocal patterns and the sound effects to create R2-D2's vocal patterns.
The another diegetic sound that we can hear in Star War is the water when the group falls in the trash compacter, the water is a genuine sound effect, how the sound that is heard on the background and also you can see is the fact when Luke is captured by the Dianoga we hear the splashes when tried to squarm away and trying to survive. 

The non-diegetic sound we can hear in the scene is the footsteps of the stormtroopers and this sound was created by the foley artists to make the stormtroopers more fearful like an soldiers or army in real life and I think the sound was recorded in an open space with soundproof walls and props for them use the sound with. The next non-diegetic sound you can hear is closing trash compactor, the sound we can hear is crashing trash such as metals, paper and etc... also the another non-diegetic sound is metal bar between the wall which block the walls and save them before they get crash and the sound it seems to me that is sound was pre-recorded and added to the sound board since it sounds like an actual machine and this look very realistic and the sound of non-diegetic sound very good.
R2-D2 is similar to machine sound patterns are recorded which include the pressure to the scene and the action and the soundtrack as well. The another non-diegetic sound is Luke trying to radio contact C-3PO, you don't see Luke talking on the radio transmitter that much and that why I thinking is non-diegetic, all you can see is quick cutaways between Luke and C-3PO for a few seconds, Luke voice was probably recorded in a soundproof studio on his own using a condenser microphones since it would be better suited for monologues and the dialogue on the radio, after the recording probably they add sound effects to make him sold like its from a radio signal to give the scene that realistic edge that it has in certain parts of the film.

The target audience will get interested in what is going to happen next in the scene because it creates atmosphere among the characters in the film so that we can also feel what they are feeling in the position that they are been put in and it is difficult for them to escape and this is create the tense and the atmosphere.

The soundtrack for Star Wars was put in fast-paced in futuristic-western type of music they choose and we can hear the sound of outside the trash compactor and it showing the action that is happen at the present time. When they get into trash compactor so it seams that the main characters having nothing to fear for the time being. But before that when Luke was caught Dianoga to break free just free just minutes later for the trash compactor to active which increase the speed of the soundtrack, because they are in danger but before it to end when RD-D2 disables the trash compactor which signals the relief of the characters and decreasing the tension of the scene. 

What scene want to tell us is top get audience to get into behind the scene and fell the emanational level,as well has just watching the film. 


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