Peer Assesment Starter Task

Student name: Bradley Webster

Assessors Name: Alexander Campbell

Diegetic sound is sound that can be heard by the characters and audience, its sound that’s relevant to the story. An example of diegetic sound is the characters talking, the dialogue.

Correct- Diegesis is the Story world. Find examples of significant dialogue to analyse for your chosen film.

Non-Diegetic Sound is sound that cannot be heard by the characters and can only be heard by the characters. It can be any sound that is edited in, whether its music / sound track. It comes into the stage post production, it is added in when editing. An example of Non-Diegetic sound is the sound track being added in during editing.

Correct- the audience are the only people who can hear non- diegetic. Such as incidental and soundtrack. It also can be done in production and pre-production.

The difference between denotation and connotation is that one of them is describing what is there and connotations are what it suggests e.g. the image denotes a Red Heart, which could connote love or sympathy. Denoting is describing what you’re seeing and connoting is describing what that may imply.

Correct

The male gaze was talked about by…

Laura Mulvey 1975, in the way women dress to attract the male gender. Women are objectified and treated as sex objects. Women can manipulate men to make the women dominant instead of subordinate.

Life on Mars Task:
Non-Diegetic Sounds

- The Sound Track - Life on Mars by David Bowie - Diegetic and Non-Diegetic Sound
- Sirens - Connotations that the situation is dangerous and there is an emergency. Sound effects reinforcing the Enigma stage.
- Incidental Music
-Defibrillator
-Heart Rate Monitor
-Voice Overs
-Little Girl - "Where are you?" Connotes the innocence of the character and the unknown of the situation.
-Crashing Sound