PRISON BREAK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hWn7TuCx4A

Prison break (summary)

Prison break is an American TV programme it follows the rescue of Lincoln Burrows , who is accused of murdering a man called Terrence Steadman, who is the brother of the Vice President of the United States. Lincoln is sentenced to a death penalty . Lincoln's brother , Michael , is convinced that his brother is innocent and formulates an escape plan. In order for this plan to proceed Michael has to commit an offence to be placed in fox river . Michael manages to escape with his brother , however there are other inmates who also manage to escape . The police order a full search for them as they're on the run .

Types of sound in TV & film Dialogue – the sound of people talking while

onscreen . Ambient or natural sound – is a natural sound

made during filming . Additional Dialogue recording . Narration – the voice of the person speaking but

not seen on the camera. Sound effects (SFX) –This is any ‘ sound

artificially produced, reproduced from a recording, etc, to create a theatrical effect, such as the bringing together of two halves of a hollow coconut shell to simulate a horse's gallop; used in plays, films, etc’

In this scene the technique used is a sound effect (sfx) of a gun shot . The sound of the gun creates a violent impact and a instant shock to the audience because they didn’t expect the women to get shot because it is daytime and she is just going to use the phone . The gun shot is repeated a number of times in this scene to show how violent and shocking this scene is and how the person behind the gun does not feel any remorse because they shoot more than once . The sound of the repeated gunshot emphasizes the pain the shooter wanted the victim to feel .

Dialogue is used in this scene , the dialogue creates tension because the man in the image (left) has a creepy tone to his voice and is scaring the other Guy (right) . This makes the audience want to know why the guy is being threatened but also killed . The dialogue gives the audience a sense of what they will be expecting in the movie . The dialogue also gives the audience chills as the tone of the guys voice (left) is gentle but threatening at the same time which brings out his personality because you can tell he is a manipulative character . I think the dialogue definitely works in this scene because it proves that there is a conspiracy and that the government are not actually working towards justice but only to kill the escaped inmates . The dialogue shows the detective Mahone being threatening to the other escaped prisoner , the dialogue proves that the detective is up to no good , this makes the audience feel frustrated as they know Lincoln is innocent and that the detective is a murderer , however the government and police doesn’t know this which makes it easy for us to empathise with the people that have been accused unjustly .

Why is sound important in films ? Sound is probably the most important element in a film this is

because it is able to manipulate and control during production and post production. It is often that filmmakers focus on the video footage and sometimes ignore the quality of their sound. Interestingly enough, the audiences seem to be more annoyed by poor sound quality than by poor cinematography.