Sound Research - A Mothers Son

While we were waiting for the new mac computers to arrive Me and Rianna spent some time doing some more research in lessons. We firstly watched some clips and analysed the sound, here is the first one:

'A Mother's Son' is a thriller TV programme, based on 2 episodes. At the opening of the first episode we firstly hear a lot of nature sounds. This helps us to imagine whereabouts the programme is set, the main noise we can hear at first is the sound of seagulls, this could suggest that the programme is set by the beach. Next we hear a non-diegetic sound of an instrument like a violin, music which you would hear at places like funerals, or mourning a death. You are also able to hear the sounds of walking on stones on pebbles, the walking is quite fast which makes you think you that this person is trying to get away from something. The pebbles also indicate the audience to some sort of beach. The non-diegetic music is slowly getting faster paced and more frantic and this creates tension and suspense to viewers, who are wondering what has happened. You then hear a faint noise from this girl, which is sort of like a cry, this is diegetic and is helping to create a sense that something is wrong with her. The only speech throughout the whole clip is the girl saying 'I'm Sorry' which adds to her cries of pain. This speech is diegetic. Throughout the whole opening all the sound is helping create the atmosphere of this programme and helping you figure out what sort of programme it is that you are watching. This relates to our opening sequence as we are also doing a thriller genre, and it helps me to see how much the sound is needed to create the right atmosphere for viewers.