Analysing sound techniques and single camera production

There are so many skills used and movies that you might not be aware about I’m here to tell you about some of these skills used in movies.  For this task I will choose three movies and the topic will be about single camera production and sound techniques used.

I will first start by talking about sound techniques.  The movie first movie I have chosen to do an example on is the dark knight. In this one-minute clip of the movie the dark knight there is a very slow and low rhythm in the background.  In the short clip there are two people talking and the music in the background keeps building up like a drum beat the scene is becoming more intense by the second you get two see people getting pointed a gun at their heads with a scared look on their faces. This is to show how the character is feel at that moment even with them talking.  There is only one person talking with throughout this whole clip about his past.  From his dialogue you can clearly understand that the joker had a metal health issue when he was at a young age given by his short backstory.  As he keeps talking he uses a man as an example of what happened to him by putting a knight in the persons mouth and slowly push the blade against the person inner check. 

Music is building up and gets higher creating more suspense. As soon as the joker ends history the music end with a really high bang effect. This was to show how terrifying this scene was and make more intense how the person died in the scene as he had blade in his mouth not being able to do anything, as there were other people with guns around. One of the techniques used here is diegetic sound. Diegetic sound is a sound technique which only the audience can hear and not the characters in the movie this technique is used in the production of a movie.  I would say that is skill is used to create mostly suspense to a movie. I think this because it makes a movie feel much better then it is and also creates a better atmosphere for the people watching the movie.

Another movie I have chosen is the transporter 3.  This is almost a four-minute movie. But in the background you hear a lot of sound effect in the fight scene to ear how much people are getting hurt. The back I think is to represent the main character of the movie and his calm sense when fighting every one surrounding him in this clip. It’s a great way to the audience focused what is on is happening. The hit impacts in this movie are all diegetic as it’s just a movie and not a real fight after all it’s a movie all the special effect they used for the sound was after the production.  You get a drums in the background going slow, fast and stops for a few second and continues again for the action and overall the audiences entertainment.

Single camera production is a video, which is basically only recorded with one camera. Single camera production can be used in movie, shows and more. Single camera are not used as often as multi camera as multi camera are mostly done by high budget movies. While single camera movie often have a very low budget. Single camera is often used in movie to create more realism to a movie then a multi camera movie as much as possible. 

The benefits of using a single camera would be that it creates a more believable world in the movie no matter the movie. It cost less as you just buying only one single camera it also take less editing with a single camera. Single camera also using tracking shot something you rarely see in multi camera movies and show.  Sometimes the single camera recording is has jerky movements in them making movies and TV shows a little armature and unprofessional as the camera might be movie with someone carrying it.

 Show that I have decided to use, as an example is the modern family. Most TV shows now are days are multi camera, which does make this show stand out from the normal crowd.  The show doesn’t always relay and cut and edit like most multi camera movies and shows. It also zooms in and moves around while recording without cut and edit.  Movement is needed in movie and TV shows because without them looking at something in one angle would be boring. 

There some movies that use tracking shot through the movie but most often these movies are unprofessional and honestly boring to most people. Movies such as troll, rec, area 51 and more. These movies stand out from the normal, as it seems like you are there through out the movie experiencing everything that they are going through kind of like 3D effect but better since every thing seems like it’s in first person.