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

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