13.4 VIEW “Frank Film” (1973) Frank and Caroline Mouris plus clips

13.4 VIEW “Frank Film” (1973) Frank and Caroline Mouris plus clips

There is no skeletal outline this week. Feel free to take notes, or answer the following questions in  your film notebook.

Please watch the following clips and study them in regards to sound. 

1.How is the sound design unique?

2.In the first ten minutes of The Conversation or Ballast what expectation do you gain?

3.What do you learn about the characters? 

4.Were you able to determine a genre based on the sound of the clips you viewed.

5.Is the sound diegetic, or non-diegetic?

6.What do you notice most the dialogue, efx or music? Why?

Here in the opening scene of The Conversation (Francis Ford Copolla, 1974)

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And here in the opening scene of Ballast.

Ballast  (2008, 97 min) Lance Hammer

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Here in the opening scene of Hot Fuzz (2007)  Edgar Wright

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 Now watch the following short animated film. How is it unique? What is happening with the sound?  How does it inform the visuals or vise versa?

Frank Film (1973) Frank and Caroline Mouris

Frank Film (Links to an external site.) (1973) Frank and Caroline Mouris