As a group we have looked into the sounds in trailers, we decided to look at dialogue and whether the majority of it is diegetic or non-diegetic. We looked through some trailers and counted the shots that had diegetic or non-diegetic sound, here are our results:
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The Monster
In this trailer we concluded that there are around 17 shots with diegetic sound and 16 shots that have voiceovers. The majority of this film is the characters trying to be quite as to not alert the creature of where they are hiding, so by spreading out the dialogue over the 155 second trailer, it creates the right atmosphere to go along with the movie. |
The Caretaker
In this trailer we concluded that there are around 20 shots with diegetic sound in them and 8 shots with a voiceover. This trailer is quite creepy, the main part of the dialogue is in the shots at the beginning where the teenagers are talking and then it disperses throughout the trailer, with it being quite quiet towards the end to add the the creepiness. |
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Emelie
In this trailer we concluded that there were around 41 shots with diegetic sound and 15 with voiceovers. This trailer is very dialogue orientated as the plot of the film revolves around Emelie forcing the children to do bad things, so by mixing up the dialogue in the different shots creates that right atmosphere for the film. |
In Fear
The In Fear trailer was 2 minutes long and had a total of 10 diegetic shots and 23 non-diegetic shots. This trailer has mostly shots of either a view from the car or fast pace actions shots. There is only dialogue near the start of the trailer with shot of both diegetic and non-diegetic voices. This is because as the clips get faster towards the end the music takes sound priority. |
The Orphan
The Orphan was 2 minutes and 23 seconds long. In this trailer there was 55 diegetic shots and 16 non-diegetic shots. Throughout this trailer there are many conversations between different people and that is why there is so much dialogue. There are lots of shots containing diegetic sound due to the fact that the trailer is very fast pace. This is because when most people are talking it either goes to a different angle or action shots making it non-diegetic sound. |
Hush
The film Hush is 2 minutes and 6 seconds long. In this film there is no diegetic dialogue and there is no non-diegetic dialogue. This trailer is all about a women on her own in her house which is a cabin in the woods. There is no one around except the killer. The film is called 'Hush' so as you expect there is no dialogue used at all as the killer tries to hunt his victim. She has no phone and no one around her who can hear her scream. |
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Get Out
This trailer is 152 seconds long and contains 59 diegetic shots and 26 non-diegetic shots. This is a very dialogue driven trailer, there are a lot of shots with diegetic sound because it shows quite a lot of the conversations throughout the movie, so that it would make more sense to the audience as a trailer. It seems to be quite a strange movie and the mixture of dialogue throughout adds to that atmosphere. |
Clown
This trailer is 137 seconds long and has 15 non-diegetic shots and 27 voiceovers. It isn't very dialogue driven as the main focus of the trailer is the transformation of the man and not the relationships between the characters. There are more non-diegetic shots than diegetic because there aren't many conversations between the characters, rather flashes of memories that are focused more on the action than the script. |
Overall, we realise that in order to have effective dialogue in a trailer, we need to have more shots with diegetic sound than we do with voiceovers as the majority of trailers have more diegetic than non-diegetic sound.
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