Yr 10 TELEVISION: INDUSTRY and AUDIENCES

THURSDAY 20 SEPTEMBER
Today you are starting to read about the history of televsion.
Please click on this link which opens the page below. 
Then open Planning and Teaching (see below). On the right, scroll down until you can see 'Television: Industry and Audiences'.
Please download and save to your desktop then start reading it.

Yr 10 Q.1 CUFFS: SOUND

Today we learn about the soundscapes in moving image.

How is 'sound' used in film and TV?

'Sound' refers to everything we hear onscreen — words, sound effects, and music. Sound is used in film to heighten a mood, provide us with information about the location of a scene, advance the plot, and tell us about the characters in the story. There are two categories of sound in film: diegetic and non-diegetic. Diegetic refers to sound that is happening in the world of the film, like walkie-talkies, brakes screeching, dilaogue.

How does sound help onscreen? 

Music in film and TV achieves a number of things: it establishes setting; it creates atmosphere; it calls attention to elements; it reinforces or foreshadows narrative developments; it gives meaning to a character's actions or translates their thoughts; and it creates emotion.

We listen to a film extract and analsye the types of sound that we can hear.

Tonight's prep should be done on your blog. If you are uncertain about uploading the work, please see me in the Media Studio in morning break. Your prep should be done on the night that it is set. It should take no more than half an hour.

Aim to write about at least two examples. Write the equivalent of about half a side of A4 paper. You can pick any parts of the Cuffs extract.

PREP

Here is an example answer:
"There are different sound effects used to  build tension in this extract, to show how panicky the characters are feeling, such as when the female police officer calls in an incident on the walkie talkie and her voice is high-pitched. She is speaking very quickly suggesting to the audience that something is about to happen.

When the police car responds to an urgent call for assistance, non-diegetic sound like the distorted voices coming through the police radio / walkie talkie builds the sense of urgency and realism.

When the robbers are breaking into the shop, diegetic sounds like the smashing of the window as the glass splinters on the ground and the sound of the van crashing create the aggression and danger of the situation.

In the cafeteria, the diegetic sound while the men and women are talking conveys a sense of realism as there are the sounds of background music, people eating food and banter."