Sound and terminology

Sound and Terminology

What sound are conventional to action/adventure
explain how music can be used to build up tension
Suggest how sound is used to attract its target audience
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Action films

This is film genre where in the story is largely told through physical action as opposed to dialogue. The action typically involves individual efforts on the part of the hero.

This major genre type includes films that have tremendous impact, continuous high energy, lots of physical stunts and activity, possibly extended chase scenes, races, rescues, battles, martial arts, mountains and mountaineering, destructive disasters (floods, explosions, natural disasters, fires, etc.), fights, escapes, non-stop motion, spectacular rhythm and pacing, adventurous heroes and non diegetic music-what the characters can hear within their world. diegetic sounds- sets mood and paste for audience.

For example:

Jaws

















The film jaw is known for its breath-taking sound tracker, which plays the main part in building up the tension , suspicion, and fear. The film jaws start of underneath to let you know both the setting and what type of thriller it use. You can also hear the sound of the ocean to give you the underwater feeling and a type of shot that makes you feel as if you were the shark swimming around hunting for food. In the music sequence whenever the shark is near or attacking it has it the theme tune which is made to build tension because when you hear that music you just know it’s the shark and that something is obviously going to happen. At some parts of the movie it does trick you by playing the music but nothing really exiting is going to happens. The movie starts at the first scene where teenagers are having a fun time and having a bonfire night at the beach playing some music. They are safe and nothing is going to harm them in anyway. It shows that the tension has gone away and that the shark is not present. Then two teenagers decide to run off and the sound of happiness start to fade away and the theme of music fade away in. Only the girl enters the water and the music is very quiet, slow and gradually increase in pace and this suggest


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What is Terminology?

The body of terms used with a particular technical application in a subject of study, theory, profession

What is sound?

Vibrations that travel through the air or another medium and can be heard when they reach a person's or animal's ear. A long surgical probe, typically with a curved, blunt end. A narrow stretch of water forming an inlet or connecting two wider areas of water such as two seas or a sea and a lake.