Sound Techniques

There are different types of sound within filming and editing. Some examples are;

• Diegetic Sound - a sound that comes from a person or object that is in the field of vision in the diegesis (the world of the story).
• Non-Diegetic Sound - sound that comes from something that is not in the field of vision and has been added in afterwards in the edit.
• Sound Motif - a sound that is associated to a character or place.
• Ambient Sound - background sound belonging to the diegesis but not always in the field of vision.
• Sound-scape - the whole set of sounds used. Like the mise-en-scene for sound.
• Synchronous Sound - where the sound is synchronised with the object emitting the sound or the person who is talking in shot.
• Asynchronous Sound - where the soundtrack is deliberately out of sync with what is visible in the filed of vision (this effect is not commonly used).
• Sound Bridge - where the sound (diegetic or non-diegetic) continues across one or more cuts/transitions. 
• Sound Effects - sounds added to the visuals in editing. 

Our film opening uses a majority of these techniques. There is a large amount of diegetic sound with dialogue and general noise such as footsteps. There is non-diegetic sound as we added in the music track during the edit. A sound bridge is used as our music in the opening continues through a number of shots. All of the sound is synchronous as all sound that is heard was filmed with the actual shot and none has been added in. An example of this is the engine of the car starting up. There is also ambient sound used, for example, other cars on the road that cannot be seen and seagulls in during the establishing shot and the first few shots around the old town.

The use of the sound bridge helps our footage flow better and makes it more fast paced. This helps it fit to the conventions of rom-com's as films such as "4 weddings and a funeral" have very fast paced openings.