Audio in a film
includes anything with sound, including dialogue, music, and sound
effects. Sporre states that sound in accompaniment with editing can
elicit audience emotion (Sporre, pg 177). When we are watching a
movie and there is a beat and as the seen progresses the beat
quickens, the tension in the audience builds (Sporre, pg 177). I
have noticed this mainly in horror films. To me the sound of a
single repeating beat represents that heart beat and as the danger
comes closer the beat quickens just as the human heart would when
coming closer to danger. Very symbolic and daunting at the same
time. Another thing to be said about audio is the music/score used
in movies. The music is always appropriately matched to the scene
and the emotion that the film is trying to pull from the audience. I
love a movie with great music. It adds so much to the emotional
value of the movie. Matching visual images with music can take the
viewer on an emotional roller coaster of happy, sad, reminiscent,
romantic, angry, scared, etc. One of my favorite endings in a movie
is the ending of the Breakfast Club, and it is mainly because
of the fantastic fusion of music. The visual and the music made a
beautiful marriage that still makes me want to throw my hands up and
cheer!
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