task 2

TASK 2

In this analysis I will be explaining how diegetic and non-diegetic sounds enhance the different scenes in star wars IV and Taken good luck scene and how these sounds have an effect on the audience.

The trash compactor scene starts of with Luke, Han Solo, Chewbacca and Princess Lea in a middle of a fight against the storm troopers. From the sounds of the lasers and the tone of their voices you can tell that they want to get away from the conflict. Luke and Han are telling Princess Lea and Chewbacca to jump into the trash compactor to avoid conflict with the storm troopers. Luke then tells Han to jump in and not too long later follows behind. After this, all of the characters are in the trash compactor together, talking about getting out. Luke then tries to shoot open the door, which is a bad mistake as the laser then rebounds of the walls, which results in the characters trying to avoid the lasers. At this point you can tell the characters are starting to get annoyed with each other as everyone is shouting and arguing, due to the current situation they are in. They then realise they have bigger issues when they hear strange noises coming from the piles of rubbish. Suddenly, Luke gets pulled under the water by a worm like creature, which makes Han start to try and shoot it before it really harms Luke. For a moment everything goes quiet as Luke is still under the water, which indicates that the other characters may have though he had died. As Luke gets back up, the walls of the trash compactor start to close in, causing everyone to worry. Han tries to stop the movement of the walls with a pole, Luke radios C3PO and R2D2, although there is no response, Chewbacca tries to get the door to open, and Princess Lea stands there hopeless. R2D2 then decodes the computer, stopping the trash compactor.

Diegetic sound is where the sound is visible on screen or where the source is implied to be present by the narrative in this particular scene. An example of diegetic sound would be the sounds of the lasers and the robots. The first couple seconds of the scene show conflict between the protagonists and the antagonists, whereby they are using lasers to try defeat each other. The noises produced by the lasers create a futuristic and discordant sound. The laser sounds where produced by ‘mickey mousing’ as the sounds where synced with the actions shown on the screen. However, the conflicting musical sounds that audience can tell that it is set in the future.

The ending fight scene starts of with the protagonist on the phone to his daughter explaining to her that she is about to get taken. He then tells her to explain every detail about the men in the house as they enter the room so he can identify them when he comes to find her. As all of this is happening the daughter is crying under the bed. After this the men enter the room where the daughter is and look around. The protagonist then says that he can hear the men. The men then start talking in a foreign accent as the daughter pushes the phone closer to them so the dad can hear better. Just then, they walk out of the room making the daughter think they have gone, and then she is suddenly pulled out from under the bed. You can then hear her screaming and telling the men to stop. One of the men takes her phone as the dad starts talking to them explaining that he is coming for them. The man replies saying ‘good luck’ before cutting of the phone.