How is sound used to create meaning? Give at least two examples (5 marks)
This section starts with the two police women walking along the pavement in a relaxing manner. In this scene most of the sound is completely diegetic. You hear birds, and the calm waves, these creating a calm sense. However, there is very quiet, but eerie background music playing throughout this scene, this suggests tension to keep the viewer action ready, and to warn them that something bad is going to happen.
Another example where sound is used to create meaning is when the four police officers are all sitting together in the cafe. There is only diegetic sound in this scene, like the clinking of cups in the background and the echoing music playing in the cafe. This is in the background from the police officers calm normal conversation. There is then a sudden break in to the calm with the women's panicked voice on the radio, this creates a large contrast to emphasise the fast paced, action scene that follows.
As soon as this next scene starts it is almost immediately followed by much faster-paced rhythmic music to connote a sense of urgency to keep the viewer on the edge of their seat. There is also large screeching sounds from the car, which show how fast the cars are going and also shows the experience of the driver's this adding a sense of danger. These senses of danger and urgency are also emphasised with the background noise of the continuous screeching siren.
For this piece of work I would give myself a mark 4/5, for there are multiple good explanations of sound and how it creates meaning and good usage of significant words like 'connotations', however the meanings of each of them could have been a bit more developed.
