Educate:
Narration is a sound used to help the audience understand process what they’re being taught and helps with them retelling what they’ve been taught it’s a good method in terms of memorization and the understanding of facts, commonly used in documentaries and other things that require an explanation. An example of narration being used for education the audience is BBC iPlayer’s Planet Earths which is narrated by David Attenborough who is a British broadcaster and biologist. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b006mywy/planet-earth).
The show educates audience members about our planet and the different species we live among and how their way of life is different amongst others. Its primary focus is animals and how they normally behave in the wild and follows the course of nature and how each animal adapts to their habitat. The narrator explains that “We must change our diet. The planet can't support billions of meat-eaters.” Touching on the importance of animals and why they’re important to us educating the audience through the use of narration (sound).
Entertain:
The sound element involves entertaining its spectators; this engages the audience more into the media text. An example could be seen in “Avengers: Endgame” a theme song plays whenever something heroic will happen and we see our heroes on screen it works as a sound entertainer for the audience as its very uplifting (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pFUP0HZwWM) for example from 1:22 to 3:23 the music is being built up and this entertains the audience because its normally played when the whole group has now regroup and they’re going to do a comeback on the enemy forces.
Inform:
This type of sound provides information and example could be some news it’s used to inform and the dramatic sound at the end and the start of the news programme it’s a key convention or trope of news production. It’s loud and intense sound signifies urgency towards the audience (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x53lfkuP044) In this example we can see that the sound is important because when we are here this sound at the start, we know that it’s going to be ‘BBC news” related. Informing the audience on what’s about to be aired.
Sell Products:
This sound helps companies make their brand more recognizable towards their audience whenever an advert is played to promote their products, this is called a jingle and an example of a company using it could be McDonalds (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE1B3N_a7fE) in this they use a jingle to sell their products, the music makes the audience more attracted to the food shown on the screen and enhances the vibrant tastes. This also helps them sell their products more efficiently.
Wild Tracks:
A wild track is an audio recording intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately. An example of this could be ‘NBA 2K’ where there are crowd noises in the background where they chant and make realistic sounds which give the game a realistic touch to it. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbu_6inbcX0) This improves the gaming experience for its players, and it improves the realism as every one of the characters engage themselves into the game even more as the crowd engages making it more interesting.
Atmospheric Sounds:
This sound element is used to create a certain mood. Atmospheric sounds are mostly used in Horror/thriller movies such as ‘The Hurt Locker’ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRPaNM6qlUE). The scene where the find the body of the dead boy the sound is tense adding suspense to the narrative and intensifies the atmosphere even more. Therefore, this makes the audience feel the tension in the scene which puts them on edge as the sound feels like your being suffocated by your surroundings, it feels as if something unexpected or shocking will happen. And the music is used to keep the audience engaged with the narrative. Which is what makes it more entertaining.
Sound Effects:
These are imitative of sounds called for in the script of a dramatic production. Sounds effects are usually in films, an example of this could be ‘Star Wars The forces’ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8VnCcg1t7w) The use of gunshots and how the laser sounds they make suggest that it’s a sci-fi film. And because of the lasers being fired it could signify that someone is fighting creating an interesting atmosphere. This example shows that they have used simple sci-fi effects to create a troublesome atmosphere.
Dialogue:
This type of sound is usually a conversation between two or more people as a feature of a Film, TV programme, radio show etc. An example of a text that uses dialogue is TV show like Netflix’s ‘The Good Place’ () Dialogue helps the audience to understand the narrative better and makes the audience to better show the characters personality/feelings in show. For example, in the show when Eleanor confronts Michael about the place, they’re in being a ‘fake’ good place she says “How could you” in a painful tone which suggests that she’s been hurt and she’s in distraught This helps the audience to understand what is happening and how the character is feeling.
Music:
This is the vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion. This enhances the audiences visual experience with the advert, making the media better as a whole as you have more of a thrill towards the products which pushes you wanting to buy it even more than before. An example of this are the adverts for the beat’s headphones, they use music to sell the product as that’s what the headphones are for and they use visuals to add more of an effect to this. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWE0_DutDWA) This advert was produced to make the audience be aware of their new Beats studio pro wireless. The advert uses the song (RIOT ROWDEY PIPE’N by A$AP ROCKY) which has a very deep bass which works well with the advertisement as it isn’t a distorted type of bass but when which is well mastered.
Use of silence:
Silence in a film is usually used to build tension and make the audience think during the time of silence. Usually used in horror movies where silence is used to build on the narrative. An example of this could be the film “Quiet place” which is a horror thriller movie which uses silence to create suspense in the narrative (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPY7J-flzE8). In the trailer we can see that the film circles around silence for example at 1:07 the girl coughing is stopped by a man who covers her mouth as the abnormal creatures that are roaming around the world seem to react to sound and hunt down their prey with its help. Educate:
Narration is a sound used to help the audience understand process what they’re being taught and helps with them retelling what they’ve been taught it’s a good method in terms of memorization and the understanding of facts, commonly used in documentaries and other things that require an explanation. An example of narration being used for education the audience is BBC iPlayer’s Planet Earths which is narrated by David Attenborough who is a British broadcaster and biologist. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b006mywy/planet-earth).
The show educates audience members about our planet and the different species we live among and how their way of life is different amongst others. Its primary focus is animals and how they normally behave in the wild and follows the course of nature and how each animal adapts to their habitat. The narrator explains that “We must change our diet. The planet can't support billions of meat-eaters.” Touching on the importance of animals and why they’re important to us educating the audience through the use of narration (sound).
Entertain:
The sound element involves entertaining its spectators; this engages the audience more into the media text. An example could be seen in “Avengers: Endgame” a theme song plays whenever something heroic will happen and we see our heroes on screen it works as a sound entertainer for the audience as its very uplifting (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pFUP0HZwWM) for example from 1:22 to 3:23 the music is being built up and this entertains the audience because its normally played when the whole group has now regroup and they’re going to do a comeback on the enemy forces.
Inform:
This type of sound provides information and example could be some news it’s used to inform and the dramatic sound at the end and the start of the news programme it’s a key convention or trope of news production. It’s loud and intense sound signifies urgency towards the audience (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x53lfkuP044) In this example we can see that the sound is important because when we are here this sound at the start, we know that it’s going to be ‘BBC news” related. Informing the audience on what’s about to be aired.
Sell Products:
This sound helps companies make their brand more recognizable towards their audience whenever an advert is played to promote their products, this is called a jingle and an example of a company using it could be McDonalds (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE1B3N_a7fE) in this they use a jingle to sell their products, the music makes the audience more attracted to the food shown on the screen and enhances the vibrant tastes. This also helps them sell their products more efficiently.
Wild Tracks:
A wild track is an audio recording intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately. An example of this could be ‘NBA 2K’ where there are crowd noises in the background where they chant and make realistic sounds which give the game a realistic touch to it. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbu_6inbcX0) This improves the gaming experience for its players, and it improves the realism as every one of the characters engage themselves into the game even more as the crowd engages making it more interesting.
Atmospheric Sounds:
This sound element is used to create a certain mood. Atmospheric sounds are mostly used in Horror/thriller movies such as ‘The Hurt Locker’ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRPaNM6qlUE). The scene where the find the body of the dead boy the sound is tense adding suspense to the narrative and intensifies the atmosphere even more. Therefore, this makes the audience feel the tension in the scene which puts them on edge as the sound feels like your being suffocated by your surroundings, it feels as if something unexpected or shocking will happen. And the music is used to keep the audience engaged with the narrative. Which is what makes it more entertaining.
Sound Effects:
These are imitative of sounds called for in the script of a dramatic production. Sounds effects are usually in films, an example of this could be ‘Star Wars The forces’ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8VnCcg1t7w) The use of gunshots and how the laser sounds they make suggest that it’s a sci-fi film. And because of the lasers being fired it could signify that someone is fighting creating an interesting atmosphere. This example shows that they have used simple sci-fi effects to create a troublesome atmosphere.
Dialogue:
This type of sound is usually a conversation between two or more people as a feature of a Film, TV programme, radio show etc. An example of a text that uses dialogue is TV show like Netflix’s ‘The Good Place’ () Dialogue helps the audience to understand the narrative better and makes the audience to better show the characters personality/feelings in show. For example, in the show when Eleanor confronts Michael about the place, they’re in being a ‘fake’ good place she says “How could you” in a painful tone which suggests that she’s been hurt and she’s in distraught This helps the audience to understand what is happening and how the character is feeling.
Music:
This is the vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion. This enhances the audiences visual experience with the advert, making the media better as a whole as you have more of a thrill towards the products which pushes you wanting to buy it even more than before. An example of this are the adverts for the beat’s headphones, they use music to sell the product as that’s what the headphones are for and they use visuals to add more of an effect to this. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWE0_DutDWA) This advert was produced to make the audience be aware of their new Beats studio pro wireless. The advert uses the song (RIOT ROWDEY PIPE’N by A$AP ROCKY) which has a very deep bass which works well with the advertisement as it isn’t a distorted type of bass but when which is well mastered.
Use of silence:
Silence in a film is usually used to build tension and make the audience think during the time of silence. Usually used in horror movies where silence is used to build on the narrative. An example of this could be the film “Quiet place” which is a horror thriller movie which uses silence to create suspense in the narrative (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPY7J-flzE8). In the trailer we can see that the film circles around silence for example at 1:07 the girl coughing is stopped by a man who covers her mouth as the abnormal creatures that are roaming around the world seem to react to sound and hunt down their prey with its help.
