(POST 14) Sound in love actually

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Sound in love actually 



When looking at sound, we focussed on a scene from love actually. This scene is the opening scene and has dialog over the top of videos from Heathrow airport. When watching it we first listened to it with the sound turned on, and then listened to it with the sound turned off. We then had to identify all of the different sounds in the video. The main feature of the video was the voice over by David (Huge Grant) and then we also noticed the music behind it.

We also learned about diegetic and non- diegetic sound. Diegetic sound is the sound that is actually in the scene. Non diegetic sound is when the sound is not picked up on screen and so has to be added during the edited process. For example, music being added to increase the tension or to make it a recognisable movie and also the voice over to add a personal perspective of the scene. This also adds detail and background knowledge. This gets added in during the editing process.

When making the video, we used Oscar Stevens to say the lines that David (Huge Grant) was speaking in that scene, we had to time how long David took to speak in the original and then timed the breaks in-between each section. I watched the original video and then wrote down what she was saying to allow Oscar to say the exact same thing and match the time. We recorded it as a video and then layered the video over the original video and cut out the video and it just left us with the audio.

This is the final video:

I personally think that this project went well, the most difficult part was to sync the music in the right place as well as finding the suitable music and to get it to start in the right place, but other than that this task was relatively easy. If we were to improve, I would maybe film the dialogue in a proper recording studio however due to time constrictions we weren't able to get in the studio.



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