Sunday 5 October 2014

Analysing Sound: The Dark Knight by Christopher Nolan

In this clip there are a lot of good uses of sound used. The main sound effects placed is the sound of punches and violence. If this Diegetic sound effect wasn't placed the audience wouldn't get a high impact of how meaningful and powerful the punches batman are throwing on The Joker.  Another Diegetic sound is the scuffle, fight sound made during the abuse batman is putting on the joker, this gives the audience a real illusion of reality. 

The dialogue of the actors is spoken in a very light, deep voice in the beginning, almost lie a loud whisper. But as the Non Diegetic soundtrack tenses up and anger builds up between the characters their voices change to a more loud, violent, threatening voice. The joker has a very contrapuntal piece of dialogue, this is suggested as when he's being abused and attacked he is laughing and doesn't seem to be in pain. This is contrapuntal as the audience wouldn't suggest a human being to do this at all in this given scenario.

The Non Diegetic soundtrack plays the biggest role in this clip. At first its silent with only dialogue heard in the clip, as the interrogation begins and more secrets are revealed Batmans anger builds. As his anger builds, an extremely intense, loud screeching type of music is played. As more and more anger builds the sound gets louder and more high pitched. This keeps the audience engaged and interested to find out what happens simply due to the engaging soundtrack played. As the interrogation approaches its end the soundtrack reaches its highest peak and dramatically cuts off. There is also a slight use of Sound Bridges as the soundtrack is played with a build up before something dramatic and intense is about to happen such as when batman lifts the joker off the ground from the table. During close proximity and combat another soundtrack of low pitch deep drum bangs is played over the screeching sound to accommodate the intense violence.


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