Analyzing Sound in Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen
In this weeks blog, I will discuss the effect of sound in a movie, especially in the clip I will cover named, Transformers 2:Revenge of the Fallen. This movie is a mixture of three genres, covering sci fi, action and suspense. I would say based on the clip provided this movie has a lot of diegetic and non-diegetic, because in this clip,the music can be heard to the audience but not to the characters themselves. Then with the sound effects from the transformers, the characters can hear them , and its what forces them to move very fast, as the music plays, indicating danger is vastly approaching.
An example of type of sound in this clip and this movie would be digital sound. This following excerpt I took from a textbook, Digital recording systems convert the analog electrical signals from a microphone into an arbitrary code of ones and zeroes that another converter can decode back into audible sound. The result is the elimination of all analog background noise, whether a faint hiss from magnetic media, periodic clicks and pops from flaws or dirt on optical film, or a needle scraping against a disk. Digital recordings’ dynamic range from dead silence to the loudest possible recording was drastically improved over analog systems. Filmmakers started to record digital audio in the 1980s and theaters started adding digital sound playback capability in the 1990s (Goodykoontz, B., & Jacobs, C. P. (2014).
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In this clip from the movie, Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen, it opens up with a sound effect from one of the transformer decepticons communicating, and it shows, Sam Witwicky played by Shia LeBeouf) and Mikaela Banes played by Megan Fox hiding in ruins. After the initial sound effect, they stat moving around in this small ruin, and outside is a couple decepticon transformers, the bad guys looking for these two, and Sam motions to Mikaela, to be quiet and not move. Mikaela is shown in fear, its hot outside in desert, shows her sweating and covers her mouth so she doesn’t scream or give them away in any way. Then it goes outside away from them to show battle raging outside between humans, and autobots versus the decepticons transformers, and shows missiles exploding And a giant transformer decepticon is shown which looks scary, hence the type of music being played at this point in clip from movie. This indicates impending danger lurking n the shadows, and the focus deepens and returns to Sam and Mikaela in the ruins. And this occurs when the cameras shooting zoom in with deep focus though a small opening a spy transformer no bigger than a mosquito maybe landing in their to do spy work on the two to see if they are in their and just then, Sam grabs it, looks at it, and smashes it with his fingertips, as the decepticon tears open the roof and locates them and they run as the decepticon tears through the remaining standing ruin. The music helps bring this scene of the movie to life and helps push forward the plot to the next scene,frame by frame, and musical sequence, as well. And lets the audience know that along with the transformers communicating with the use of special effects, the music is also playing apart in forwarding the plot and gives us a little bit of foreshadowing that lies ahead and the danger that lurks. And, with the music that is playing, that is just what the audience hears, opposed to the sound effect the transformers make and characters in the movie hear. But some of the noises could and some maybe not, but for the most part, many effects are created, and not real.
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References:
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Goodykoontz, B., & Jacobs, C. P. (2014). Film: From watching to seeing (2nd ed.). San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc. This text is a Constellation™ course digital materials (CDM) title.
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