Saturday 5 July 2014

Use of Sound in Yasuko to Kenji

Music

  • Theme Tune - playful, features characteristic sound, trumpets and piano
  • Royal orchestrial music when talking about how rich Erika's parents are
  • Woeful clown music - mistakes
  • Triumphant classical music in wedding fantasy - would be rich and happy
  • Music cuts out when father arrives - interrupts their status quo
  • Heavy metal guitar sound - Kenji's reputation and past
  • Violin music - sneaking around, plotting
  • Deep danger sound when talk about father coming round
  • Jazz sound when plan doesn't go to plan
  • Cheerful string music
  • Oriental pinging sound when Kenji shouts - true self revealed, authority, anger
  • Trumpet flare sound as Erika gets angry
  • String music
  • Drum roll before cut - something about to happen, a problem to fix
  • Oboe/flute music - uncertainty, manipulation
  • Silence when she tells him it has been 10 years juxtaposed with his loud outburst of anger
  • Piano as dad collapses continues over manga problems
  • Sad flute music with tenser piano sounds
  • Soft piano music as they talk about jun - tenderness
  • Trumpet music starts as Kenji reactsto Yasuko saying she will study abroad
  • Jaunty music as limo pulls up
  • Jazz highlight as reacts to Tower
  • Silence as dad makes his offer to Yasuko
  • Sad music as he says that they 'live in different worlds'
  • emotional music as Yasuko pretends to be happy
  • Intrigued music when sponsor is revealed
  • Silence while Yasuko and kenji talk
  • Fancy orchestral music at party
  • Emotional string music as Kenji interrupts
  • Silence after Kenji has left
  • Theme song starts as Jun runs out
  • aeroplane sound

Sound FX

  • Mototrbike and horn sound - Kenji's past in bike gang, Erika's past
  • Clatter of Erika being clumsy - building her character
  • Cute sounds of Yasuko's youth, clumsiness
  • Glittering sound matching with Tsubaki's perfection and how Yasuko sees him as beautiful etc
  • Whirl of basketball - talented in different areas, manly pursuit
  • Thudding sounds reflect the importance and disastrous effects of the press releases
  • Pipe sound that connotes fighting, samurai etc when Kenji is angry/fights people
  • Glitter sound mathcing her animated fantasy of Tsubaki as handsome prince
  • Picture sound - famous, important
  • Glitter as Tsubaki turns Yasuko around - like a princess
  • Reaction sounds after father enters - shock
  • Impact sounds as Erika and Yasuko realise they have to show Kenji being in love with Erika
  • Pen sounds - working as manga artist
  • Sound of neck cracking
  • Chopping sound - ramen shop
  • Sound of bowl being putting on side
  • Grabbing Aijaksu by the T shirt and hitting with leek
  • Pinging sound as Yasuko gets an idea
  • Dinging sound as Kenji reacts to Yasuko saying 'ouch', whipping sound as turns his head, stool knocked
  • Sound as he works out she was tricking him
  • Flames sound as Erika's eyes become feiry with anger along with horn sound connoting her niker gang - connects her anger and her gang past together
  • Sound of the coins he leaves
  • Hits with sponge
  • Hitting table with anger - trying to be alpha male - showing his definiteness
  • Shock sounds matching with CUs of Harvard leaflet
  • Rushed knock - concern
  • birds as zooms in on their house
  • Opening door sound
  • High electronic glug sound as Yasuko makes up her mind
  • Slamming food down - anger
  • Picking up plates - scared of anger
  • Whooshing sound as she fall over
  • Limo driving and door opening sounds - taken to a different place very different to what she's used to, posh
  • Reaction sound as see tower
  • Heartbeat sound building up to confession
  • Hammer thrown, kicking the table - unsettled, taking out feelings
  • Door opening sound interrupts the beginning of Jun's speech
  • Rev soumd as Kenji is uncertain how to act

Other

  • Whisper - hushed tone, respect, secret that has been kept
  • American voice saying 'Ms Yasuko please show us the wedding ring'
  • Voiceover of her fantasy
  • Tsubaki Saying 'Shall we dance' in english
  • Kenji shouting - showing true self
  • Yasuko's voice over establishing shot of house
  • People stopping covos to bow to Tsubaki dad
  • Words in past have echo effect on
  • Erika shouting when comes in - urgent, worried
  • Clamour of voices around jun - he is wanted, popular
  • Voice echoing around hall
  • Talk to business people in english
  • surprised confused mumbles from extras

Friday 4 July 2014

EFP

Electronic Field Production

On location in the open air

Thursday 3 July 2014

Use of Sound in Orphan Black

in Series 2 Episode 2

Music

  • Two note Helena theme
  • Throughout to create suspense and constant tension
  • Rising to crescendo when face of Kira's kidnapper is revealed - electronic note getting higher 
  • Theme Tune Music - slow pace with kaleidoscope, humming emphasizes human aspect,
  • Diagetic organ music overlapping with non diagetic urgent music
  • organ immediately establishes church setting and helps with funeral
  • Gentle spiritual singing with piano
  • Tense music building to peak as CU of Alison's face - feel as though something will happen
  • Fast paced music shows the action but not danger
  • strange banjo music
  • high pitched note - about to make a discovery
  • ddep dangerous music
  • higher pitched metallic sound when Sarah fights backs
  • piano music - emotional touch to Mrs S saying that she's on Sarah's side - more legitimate?
  • Piano gone back to techno when back in Dyad institute
  • Piano show tunes
  • Fast paced music as Helena is escaping
  • Guitsr strumming with undercurrent of throbbing techno 
  • No music at the start of dinner
  • Warbling electronic piano - strange, unknown, uncertainty
  • piano as Kazzima and delphine kiss
  • darker sounds when Rachel enters
  • piano when Kira and Sarah hugs - purity of their bond, child and relationship to mother
  • disjangled music when Mrs S starts talking
  • Tense music and footsteps sounds as Kira and Sarah try to sneak away
  • Piano as Srah leaves Mrs S
  • Sad music as Alison is left alone
  • Southern music after Tomas is killed

Sound FX

  • Helena - metallic hissing, 
  • Beeps - heart monitor, awake but not well
  • Felix's ring tone - clubbing sound
  • Tone after phone call is terminated and decisisve sound of it being placed down
  • Computer beeping highlighting use of technology to search for Kira vs older telephone of the 'religious freaks'
  • High heels - women, appearance
  • Track sounds of wheels
  • Birds, cows - nature - what the proletheans advocate, secluded, hard to find, honest work, past values
  • Plastic gloves - for pregnancy, they benefit in some ways
  • Washing machine - deep churning threatening sound
  • Click of knife puts Sarah in danger shows what he thinks the power relation is
  • broom sound - domestic amateur theatre, the closeness to the actual death that has taken place, everything revolving around the home and secrecy in surburbia
  • Beeping of her illness
  • Beating back
  • Wine sounds
  • Ringing telephones
  • Attempt to rev the car
  • thud of Srah hitting him on the head
  • Birds as Felix waits outside
  • truck driving up
Voice
  • Kira's name is short and easily shoutable
  • Different accents clearly denoting different characters
  • Echoing effect on people's voices to emphasize her state of conciousness and unhingedness from reality
  • Whispering - gossip and back stabbing of small close community like that of Alison's surburban environment
  • Children laughing - inappropriate, the importance in that environment of appearance and conforming
  • Grunt - Sarah strength and unexpectedness,
  • British accents - all linked
  • woman whimpering