Sound Analysis

The trailer opens with a soft piano tune playing over the top, this acts as non-diegetic sound, but allows the trailer to progress at a steady and constant pace, however as the sound fades away we hear a voice over- something that resembles a blurred out voice. A sound we often hear from pilots, this creates a sense of safety as Pilots are figures of authority.


Then we hear a sound bridge of the same voice being carried over into a scene of panic, this is represented through the diegetic sound of screams, which we can assume have been amplified to create more fear. This is accompanied by faced paced editing as well as low key lighting to create a sense of instability for the audience. The diegetic sound at this point is quickly rising in amplification.

The effect of this is to quickly enhance the audience's engagement. This overlaps with the diegetic sound of yelling "Sully" "Sully" "Sully", and then the sound cuts completely, then after 2 seconds of silence and a close up of a male characters face- we are told that the character we are facing is Sully, but the silence is also significant as it shows perhaps a sense of wrong doing / misjudgement.

We then resume with the non-diegetic sound of the piano , however this time the sound is deeper in tone. Which suggests that something big is going to happen. At this point the piano increases is frequency, as to signify the change of camera position/ location. For example it coincides with the jump cut- therefore speeding up the pace of the opening. The remainder of the trailer is then a mixture of cross cutting from the plane, and what appears to be an office location.

Then we reach the climax of the trailer, this is evident as this shot is a longer take, but also because the dialogue of a news reporter is loud-implicating that the following shot will be significant. What then follows is a sequence of short takes along with non-diegetic sound that increases until we see the main title of the film.  The deepest piano tone is then heard, which then fades away slowly as the title appears on the screen.







I would like to emulate the effect of high tempo music gradually increasing in some form of prosody, until my trailer reaches its main climax or in this case title.