Once Upon a Time in The West - Sound

What is sound:  

Ambient - background sound

Foley - footprints etc 

Dialogue - speech of what is going on

Emotional realism- Portrays the emotion of the character by the soundtrack music 

Establishing sound - Sound that starts from the beginning and is reduced during dialogue 

Sound Motive - sound effect for a specific character 

Watched from: 3:20 till 9:00 

Watching the clip with no picture, What i can hear: 

Birds, crashing, nature-outside, footprints, chain-starting of engine, Water dripping, dog, fly, train, hooting, wind 

What does it tell me about the characters - country/western characters, they are cowboys. 

What mood does it create - dull 

Watching the film with the picture, What i can see/hear: 

Western film

Using long shots 

Close shot to show he is annoyed

Broke the phone thing cause he is annoyed

Lazy characters - waiting 

An annoying fly 

Trapped a fly in a gun 

He is happy cause he is making a fly suffer - he could be a murderer?

Analysing the sound: 

Once upon a time in the west 

Ambience - the background sound in this opening would the wind, birds and the train. These sounds might come under foley as well but additionally they are ambient sounds 

Foley - the water dripping would be edited in along with the birds tweeting and the annoying fly to make it sound isolated 

Dialogue - There is no dialogue in this clip because they are waiting for an unknown reason 

Emotional realism - the dog crying could be portraying them, they could be crying inside 

Establishing sound - a sign from the railway station was swinging from the start of the clip to the end, it makes it sound isolated. There is no dialogue so no sound was reduced 

Sound motive - a character was clicking his knuckles This could be shown as a masculine sound

Dexter Edit

Dexter Final: 

This was my first shoot in a group round someones house, this gave us a chance to understand how the people in the group work and to find out if they are reliable. This task allowed us to show use the skills we have learnt throughout our other edits and put it to the test 

Falling Down

Falling Down

In the opening of this film, we used the same video but created the sound ourselves using sound given to us and sound available on Garage Band. I started off by using the deep breathing noise during the titles to introduce the audience to the character and how he is in a stuffy hot car. Eventually, as the camera turns and focuses on the outside of the car, the sound of the children and the cars engine gets louder. we used about 5-6 layers throughout as the breathing was still in the background just not as loud, along with the truck horn, police car, buzzing fly, cars engines, radio and noisy children.
It makes it a thriller based location because the sounds used creates mystery and suspense, because as a viewer you do not know what is going to happen, even towards the end of the clip, you still have no idea what is going to happen. All the layers of sound build up to create suspense and mystery. So when creating mine, i will need to deleted the sound from the camera and re make the sound myself so it doesn't include the outdoor noise of cars which can be unnecessary.