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Saving Private Ryan

 

• Conventional action/war feature film
• Single camera
• Quick cuts in the opening action scene
• Dramatic atmosphere, sounds overlapping
• Sound track is heart-felt and mostly classical music
• Most sound is added in ‘wind, bombs’
• some diegetic sound, mostly ADR
• Tense build up to dangerous and dramatic moments

• Mise-en-scene bombs, waves, gun shots  
• Propps Narrative theory
• Drained lighting
• Action scenes quick cuts
• In action scenes no soundtrack only sound effects
• Could not have a sequel to the film cause mission at hand has been completed and a one off event
• ADR sound, battle scenes, realistic atmosphere
• Audience placed as a character

• Surround sound - into the action and being apart of the film
• Watching at home - not a lot of sound picked up
• Phone or Mp3 player - earphones only two speakers which means stereo sound.
• Recorded in the studio
  • Bombs going off
  • Gun shots
  • Bullet hits
  • Boat engine
  • some lines
  • Stronger wind effects
  Recorded on location
  • Waves
  • Tanks
  • Some lines
  • Wind
  Jaws

• Conventional horror, thriller feature  film
• Single camera,  
• Diegetic sound, speaking, some waves
• ‘open-sea shoot’
• ADR sound, shark, waves
• Tense soundtrack, built tensen to scare
• audience
• Mise-en-scene shark, boat
• Dark lighting conventional
• Follows Todorov narrative theory
• Also follows Propp theory with the hero saving the town
• Has sequal in a different location but has the same
• characters in it
• Watching in the cinema - Surround sound, know where the monster is
• Listening on phone or MP3 player - atmosphere wouldn’t be as tense, not into the film    
• Recorded on location would be the waves, open-sea set
• Recorded in the studio music, some lines, bones being eaten mostly recorded in the studio

Recorded on Location

• Waves
• Some lines
• Boats moving in water
• Some movement from shark
• Screaming

Recorded in the studio

• Iconic music track
• Rest of the lines
• Eating of the humans
• Stronger wave sounds ‘incase’

Saving Private Ryan:                   Jaws:

Action, war                                 Horror, Thriller

Most sound recorded            Most sound recorded                    

in studio                                           on  location               

Conventional in genre         Conventional in genre

More sound effects          More soundtrack, music