POST 14: Love Actually: SOUND

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LOVE ACTUALLY

SOUND STUDY

This video shows the original clip from the opening scene of the film Love Actually.

When studying sound, we were given a scene from Love Actually, this allowed us to focus in on all small details of sound within a small scene. This scene shows one of the main characters played by (Hugh Grant), acting as the narrator, speaking for the duration of time, therefore this had been the first key aspect of filming the sound, as this had been the main focus. The other details of the sound had been the background music, this had been applied whilst editing the narration as the timing of the music and the speaking had been critical. When recreating this scene we chose to use Oscar Stevens as the narrator, for this the timings had to be accurate. Once filmed, we layered the audio with the original clip of the scene.

DIAGETIC AND NON-DIAGETIC SOUND:

Whilst studying sound within films and tv programmes we learnt about the aspects of diagetic sound and non-diagetic sound, this allowed us to understand the main differences of the importance of both different aspects of sound. Within this scene we have only used non-diagetic sound. Non-diagetic sound within this scene is the music and the narrators dialogue as only the audience can hear it. This differs to studying the sound in 13 Reasons Why, as Love Actually is more of a montage alongside an opening monologue, therefore there are no diagetic sounds within this scene.

This video explains diagetic and non-diagetic sounds within film...

HERE IS OUR FINAL OUTCOME: 

Overall, I think our final outcome had been successful, as the timing had been close to accurate. However, the only thing we would have changed is where we recorded the narration, as the room had made the dialogue full of echo sound, we chose to record the sound in that room as it had been silent and empty, therefore it had been successful in not having any background noise, which had been important for a narration.