Digital Video: Sound
Transformers
Narrative:
Voice of god narrative has been used as an introduction to the film, where Optimus Prime tells the audience about the conflict between Autobots and Decepticons, and that the ‘cube’ has landed on earth. These events all took place before the film’s starting point thus setting up the film.Character based narrative is used when Sam, the lead character, talks to his class about his great, great, grandfather’s trek into the Antarctic. He is first shown on screen visibly talking to his class, then as the scene changes to images of his grandfather, the narrative carries over to off screen. Music: Extraneous-Dramatic music is used during the initial conflict at the army base to reinforce the seriousness of the scene. As a Decepticon lays to waste everything in its path, the music appropriately creates a sense of dread and awe, which is intended to draw the audience onto the same emotional level as the characters on screen.Contradicting style of music used in classroom scene where Sam is trying to persuade his teacher to give him a better grade. Dramatic music was used in what was actually a comical scene. Practical-Mexican style music is being played in the office of the car yard for comical effect. This is audible to actors and audience. This type of music helps to tell the audience to expect some laughs from this scene. Sound Effects: Soft Effects-At the army base we hear a lot of soft effects being used. For example, things like cars and trucks arriving/leaving, conversations between a mass of soldiers, yet being based in the desert there are not many natural background noises that need to be added. Hard Effects-A lot of the hard effects have been digitally added in this film for obvious reasons. This applied to scenes featuring helicopters and jet planes in flight, the back windows of cars shattering at the car yard, explosions and gunfire, etc, but more importantly every scene featuring transformers. The transformers footsteps and transformations are a very important feature of the film and were precisely synchronized to match their on screen actions. Another example was the decepticon signal that was used to hack into the government defence system, which was synchronized to a visible sound wave. Dialogue: Off screen used during the opening scene at the army base, when talking over the radio or via phone. A large area like this with many characters talking at once, whilst contending with vehicle and natural background sounds, means a lot of ‘wild lines’ have been added later.When Sam is giving his presentation to the class, his form of dialogue changes from on screen to off screen as we change to images of his grandfather’s expedition.
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