Use of sound in the film "The Graduate"

Director: Mike Nichols
Year: 1967

• happy music that slows down with the car
• diegetic music: cars going past
• sudden music outside church
• music is alawys used when there seems to be hope
• noise is somtimes muffled, e.g: laughing in the back of the bus

Use od sound in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"

Director: Michel Gondry
Year: 2004

• cars- diegetic
• music reflects how he's feeling- tired and slow
• the music slowly faded away.
• some noises louder than other noises for effect

Use of sound in "Scream"

Director: Wes Craven
Year: 1996

• large bangs make the audience scared
• diegetic noises: doorbell, telephone, etc
• non diegetic noise as well
• pounding music creates tension
• sets the genre
• they make some sounds louder than others
• creaking of the swing- who's hearing it?
• dog- someone prowling in the neighbourhood
• phone was getting louder
• alerts us to the fact that she's in danger
• viscaeral- a feeling sound..... you it in your body like a jolt
• use of violins- like a 'scream'

Use of sound in "Insomnia"

Director: Christopher Nolan
Year: 2002 USA

• drum is like a heartbeat
• a sense of impending danger
• a sense of death
• sets the genre
• stabbing sounds relate to the genre

Use of sound in "Taxi Driver"

Director: Martin Scorsese
Year: 1976 USA

• goes from scary music which is frantic, then to jazz music which is calm. It alternates between the two
• can be hear talking before it changes the shot
• both diegetic and non diegetic
• the opening is like a prologue.
• like "Pyscho"
• the drum beat is like a heartbeat
• the scary music- last career was in the marines
• jazz music- city music
• the music is his split personality
• a sound bridge

Sound

Different types of sound:

• sound bridges
• sonic flashback
• diegetic/non diegetic
• direct sound
• nonsimultanous sound
• off screen sound- like non diegetic
• post synchronised dumbing
• sound perspective
• synchronous sound
• voice over
• silence is a sound

"Speed"

Director: Jan de Bont
Year: 1994

• "classic hollywood" film
• jump shots
• speed of camera shots- goes with the name of the name
• craning shot
• contrasting calmness
• inside of the bus is calm while outside is busy due to the traffic
• camera in the bus and car as if we are passengers
• rhythm- more time on the bus rsther than the car- creates more tension

Editing

• pace
• time lapsing
• parallel action- that are significant
• tension- fast pace
• flashbacks- background knowledge
• flashforwards- opposite of flashbacks

Keywords:

• cross- cutting
• cut-in, cut away
• dissolve
• iris
• jump cut
• establishing shot
• superimposition
• wipe
• eyeline match
• graphc match
• match on action
• rhythm- if it's right you don't notice editing
• continuity editing
• montage- another name for editing ( french word)
• eliptical editing- gap in the story

Use of Cinematography in "La Haine"

Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Year: 1995

• zooming in
• close-up
• over his shoulder for his point of view
• tracking shot
• looking up- tilted shot

• slow motion- steady camera
• it seems like a tracking shot but it isn't
• over the shoulder shot
• goes from the police to join the gang in one fluid camera move
• the camera is like the 4th member of the gang
• documentary shot- mid shot
• shallow depth of field.
• deep focus
• camera at ground level

Use of Cinematography in "Psycho"

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Year: 1960

• wide shots
• panning shots
• establishing shot through the window- crane shot
• zooming in and closing in in one go
• we are the camera
• big city, goes to a small couple
• the opening goes against the genre
• dissolve shot
• window- we want to know who's through it
• same shot that is outside as it is inside
• we've kind of 'climbed through the window'
• once through the window the camera stays in one position
• both people are of equal importance- the film could be about either of the

• her point of view
• our point of view- we are 'spying' on her
• it's like we're in the room with her
• reverse shot
• close-up