I will analyze the different types of sound at work in a film and assess how they contribute to the overall sense of meaning in the film Shane. Director: George Stevens
Writers: A.B. Guthrie Jr.
Release Date 24 September 1953
The three basic categories of sound are Dialogue, Sound
Effects, and Music. Dialogue is spoken words by two or more characters in a
scene that may be (animation). Sound Effects are enhanced sounds created
artificially, popular sound effects are isolated sounds like doorbells, car
horns, and telephone rings. Foley sounds are synchronized with the visuals of
the film. Music is a basic element
as crucial to the movie going experience used to add emotion and rhythm to
film. In the film Shane that I
would be analyzing I would explain the three basic categories of sound.
The film Shane a western film about a weary gunfighter who attempts to
settle down with a homestead family, but a smoldering settler/rancher conflict
forces him to act (imdb).
As for Pfeiffer Shane is about “Joe Starrett (played by Van
Heflin) is a hardworking farmer who lives with his wife, Marian (Jean Arthur),
and their young son, Joey (Brandon deWilde), on a homestead in Wyoming.
Starrett and his fellow homesteaders are being terrorized by Rufus Ryker (Emile
Meyer), a cattle baron who resents the farmers’ use of precious grazing land.
Ryker uses increasingly ruthless methods to drive the farmers off their land,
but Starrett, as their unofficial leader, urges his friends to resist. Into the
situation rides Shane (Alan Ladd), a quiet man with a mysterious past”(2014).
This film uses many sounds to help elaborate the genre of a western. Isolated
sounds like cattle roaming with cowbells, to gunfire from shots of a gun and
rifle. There’s fight scenes that use sound effects to enhance the hit of a fist
or slap. Music is also used to add emotion and rhythm, like the scene of the Fourth
of July wedding. The use of sound is used as a language we all can relate to.
The sounds in this film gave us the frontier sound that relate to a western
theme genre.
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