Sound

There are five main sound terms that are the basic fundamental of the media industry, which are used to make us feel a certain way. It brings a certain atmosphere to the movie or makes us feel a certain way in the movie by using these five essential sound technicial elements in films. They could also be used to bring tension or suspense to exhiliarate the audience's mood as a whole in that particular scene, moment or it could be during the whole season of the movie.

Dialogue is the words and conversation spoken by characters. The dialogue tends to vary depending on the movie genre, the plot of the movie, the characters and scenes in the movie. The language, tone, accent and volume are all equally taking into consideration when we want to get the mood from the dialect. The most famous dialogue between two men, who seem to be in a very difficult situation deciding whether to leave their country as they feel are oppressed in their current occupation is "Get busy living, or get busy dying" from 'The Shawshank Redemption'(3:00 - 3:04)

Voice over is the sound that is spoken by someone off screen. It could be used to narrate a story. It gives the audience some background information or essential background that hasn't been explained by the characters. The voiceovers used tend to be the main character, themselves used for that purpose to express their thoughts and feelings, which make the audience feel empathy immediately- voiceovers are delibrately used to make the audience feel a certain way. The best use of voice over in a film is Red's(Morgan Freeman's)narration of the first night from the movie, 'The Shawshank Redemption'. Red's soothing, relaxing voice makes the audience know 'The first night is the toughest', which makes us feel sympathy for people who are going to experience the first night and we also feel incredbly sorry for Red experiencing the first night as well despite the fact he's in prison, and people in prison should repent for their actions by experiencing pain.

Sound track is music used in a film or a TV Drama, Some sound tracks are specifically composed, produced, and played specifically in that specific production. The purpose of a soundtrack is to make the audience feel a certain way immediately by them listening to the soundtrack during the timing of the film. 'The Shawshank Redemption' best emphasized what mood they want the audience to feel. The sheepish, powerful and contentful soundtrack is used throughout the whole duration of the movie to make the audience resent for the people who trapped Red and Andy as we feel like we have a emotional, personal relationship with them as we got to know them more. 'So Was Red' song used in the soundtrack is by far the most heartful compared to the rest, from the composer, Thomas Newman.

Incidental music is background music that adds atmosphere. It usually starts with a low, ominous tone, which suggests an startling scenario is occuring or the scenes that have already been shown are going to be affected as something major is going to happen. Usually, at the start of incidental music, either something bad starts to happen then it comes better or it's the other way round. 'The Shawshank Redemption' most effective incidental music is during 'Brooks Was Here' scene. This scene is when Brooks comes out of prison and he should feel happy that he's out but his life is oppressing him tremendously. At the end of this scene, he kills himself to take away his misery. This incidental music is used during his monologue, which makes us think what will happen. The sad incidental music reflects Brooks' emotions. The incidental music slightly fades away when he has killed himself and comes back on when Andy has a letter, which emphasizes that this was used to bring tension in till it reached the peak(in this case, the highest peak is when Brooks killed himself by hanging himself.

Ambient sound is sounds present in the background of a scene. It allows shots to continue consistently by the continuity of audio. Ambient sounds usually establish or reinforce a mood in a scene so the volume, tone, complexity of the sound enable the audience how to feel just by the set-up of the sound. 'The Shawshank Redemption' makes the audience feel very awkward and amused by 'The Opera scene' as Andy broadcasts opera music throughout the whole prison and locks the door so the prison officers don't get in. This makes us also wonder how Andy has got in trouble already when he just recently joined the prison. Opera music is used deliberately in this scene because opera music usually makes people fall asleep due to their boredom, which suggests Andy broadcasts opera music is show how pathetic the music is as well as he was bored that's why he decided to broadcast it. These analogies between opera music and Andy shows he's a difficult one to deal with as opera music is usually loud, which could be compared to Andy's obedience and personality.