We watched the clip below from the movie 'Psycho'. We first watched it with sound and then without to show the importance of sound and what kind of mood/emotion sound can put forward to the audience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VP5jEAP3K4
Without Sound
Without sound, the scene was tense and I was completely unsure of what was happening. You couldn't really comprehend what the character was feeling as it was complete silence and her facial expressions and paralinguistic features weren't very obvious.
With Sound
With sound, we picked out that Diegetic and Non-Diegetic sound was used. The sound of the water from the shower was diegetic, along with the characters sighs. This made the scene seem more realistic. On the other hand, Non-Diegetic sound was used for the shower curtain opening, the characters being cut and the water escaping down the drain. Foley was used for these sounds as the shower curtain opening was a sharp, loud sound. They used Non-Diegetics to make the scene more dramatised. Furthermore, it adds to the suspense and makes the audience tense.
Sound is very importance to consider within a scene, we knew the killer was gone as the music got cut as soon as he left.When watching without the sound, we couldn't tell whether he had actually gone or not.
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