Wednesday, 4 March 2015

Sound in period dramas

After watching a number of period dramas, I have gathered a list of the most commonly used diegetic and non diegetic sounds used in period dramas:



Horses neighing (usually diegetic) example

Horses galloping (both diegetic and nondiegetic) 

People running on gravel paths, footsteps as someone runs (diegetic) example

Birds tweeting in outside shots (nondiegetic) example

Rivers running (diegetic) example

China Clinking (diegetic) example


The sounds that would be of use for our period drama would be the person running on what sounds like gravel, also a sound for the person falling down. in this case I don't really think that the birds tweeting a river noises would necessarily suit the tone of our film as we are trying to create a quite sad and serious tone.

Some examples of period dramas that use the aforementioned sounds would be Pride and Prejudice (2005) Pirates of the Caribbean (2003) and Jane Eyre (any year)

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