Sound in the media can lead you to different emotions. Using a variety of sound techniques to entice you in and make you feel something you wouldn't feel while watching it.
Diegetic Sound
In this clip you see Jennifer Lawrence's character dancing and singing to a song that she is listening to on the radio or TV. This gives you a light hearted feeling that she is fun and dances to the radio but the song is metaphorically her situation throughout the film as she isn't aware of her husbands situations.Non- Diegetic Sound
In this clip (unable to get on blog) from Episode 4 of Doctor Foster, the character Gemma Foster is going through a depressing stage in her life with her husband and job.
Timing of scene: 44:15 - 45:45.
Sound Effects: the pitch is low, setting us the scene whilst she is on the phone to her husband. The crescendo increases as she gets off the phone because it makes us question what is going to happen next.
Music: the music (score) over powers her as she gets off the phone while she is crying because it indicates what she is going to happen next on the beach and whether we should feel sad with her or angry!
Non - Diegetic to Diegetic: when she is in the sea, the camera shots are synchronized with the sound as we can hear what she is hearing (swimming and the waves). But also, when it is shot underwater, the score increases in pitch because the pace of it slightly increases and results into her drowning, when that finally takes over as the loudest sound (more powerful on us as viewers).
Dialogue and Voice Over
In Gone Girl, there is quite a few dialogues but this one stands out because it truly testifies that Amy Dunne is the crazy one who all along wanted to punish her husband. At this point, you feel sorry for Nick but her plan is so thought through you feel surprised that it actually went okay.
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