Sound Analysis

Diegetic - Sound which the characters in the diagesis can hear (i.e doors slamming, footsteps)

Non diegetic - Sounds the characters cannot hear but the audience can (i.e soundtrack/ voiceover)

Scoring - Origional music written to go with something in the scene

Soundtrack - Popular music or particular music chosen to create a mood and go with the scene

Sound effects - Sounds added in post production for creating an efect (i.e tires screeching)

Theme music - Soundtrack which goes with certain situations or characters (i.e eastenders)

Ambient sound - Natural sound occuring in the scene (i.e cups rattling in the cafe)

Dialogue - Actors speech/ accent/ regional identity

Sounds bridge - The soundtrack starts in one scene and continues in another scene, (bridges two scenes, help continuity)

Diary of a call girl

Diagetic sounds have been emphasized like:  footsteps, door slamming, rustling and breathing all builds a very awkward tension and siolence within the scene, which represents how the characters is feeling; because of being disabled a simple situation has been made difficult and awkward. This along with the absense of soundtrack, which emphasizes the same point.

In the dialogue, the characters use very weak voices and speak in short, slow and uncompleted sentences which again helps build up this awkward and embarrased atmosphere with alot of tension. Although this is reflecting how other people view disability; a very sensetive and sympathetic topic. We know this as the character himself who is disabled is the only character who speaks fast and finishes his sentences, so we understand that he has already accepted that he is disabled whereas the other characters havent neccesarily done so.

Asynchronous sound is used when the father is in the car, the radio plays a classical sound track which does not represent his mood so he switches it off. This shows the contrast of his mood, that he is anxious and protective over his disabled son.

When the the scene of the father sitting in the car cross-cuts to the scene of the boy and the girl about to make love, a sound bridge is used to emphasize his anxiousness and worry over what is occuring in the room, the idea that he wants to protect and be there for his son. This presents a parents point of view about their disabled child.

The soundtrack used for when the girl and the boy are about to make love is not the archytypal; it is very slow (created with a harmonica). This constitutes pathos within the scene and creates the mood where the audience feel sorry for him because they know, as a disabled person he is not able to enjoy this moment as a boy of his age naturally could.