Diagetic sound, or sound that has a source in the story world, is present in many scenes of Apocalypse Now, such as the radio recording of the dead soldier’s voice, troops chanting cadences, and the soft ‘elevator music’ playing in the general’s office while they were discussing operations.
External diegetic sound refers to sounds that others in the film can hear whereas internal diegetic sound occurs within a characters mind. In contrast, Non-deigetic refers to any sound that originates from outside of the film. These terms were portrayed perfectly during the first scene of the movie.
As many of my peers have talked about above, the beginning of the movie is very impacting when it comes to the aspect of sound. When it first begins, the viewer hears the helicopter faintly, but it begins to get stronger as the helicopter gets closer to the frame. This is the type of sound that deals with depth and positioning of certain things within a scene. The music then begins to slowly fade in, which really draws the audience into the movie. The use of diegetic sound then comes into play when there is the helicopter noises overlapping with the fan. Mixing is also a part of the beginning scene when the helicopter noise and the music mix together. Overall, the techniques of sound are very prominent in this film
He blends many different sounds to draw attention to important aspects. This technique is referred to as, diegetic sound. Also, the director frequently used sound to gain excitement and suspense.
Within the first scene of Apocalypse Now, the sound is very quiet with calming music and very quiet sounding explosions. Then the helicopter blades mix with the sounds of the fan, which shows the audience how hard it is for the main character to separate simple everyday things from bringing back the memories of war. Diegetic sounds come into play at various points in the movie also. For example, when the dead soldier’s voice begins playing over the recording or the cadence of the soldiers. Also, the main character does a lot of narration and voice over within these scenes where he tells the audience what is happening in the background, what is happening where we cannot see but what we can hear.
In the first scene in Apocalypse now the music is a calm tempo to start out with. Slowly the tempo becomes more intense, then the trees burst into flames and there is a helicopter in the top of the screen, this is when the tempo because a thumping intense beat to show the viewer that the scene is becoming more serious. The camera keeps fading between a man laying down on his bed and the burning of the trees. This shows that the man and the trees burning are related. The tempo turns into more of a thumping sound when there is a close up on a fan that acts like a helicopter. These sounds are made to show the viewer that they make then man mad. He is in his room alone haunted by these images and sounds as he drinks away his pain. The sounds get to a faster tempo when the scene gets more intense because it is almost to show the heart rate of someone who would be watching what is happening. It allows us as viewers to feel as if we are in the scene with the other actors and actresses.
The use of sound was effective in the beginning when the helicopters were flying in and the classical music was playing, this was a strong effect because there was a lot of commotion going on and many loud noises due to the helicopters but the classical music added a calmer and slower effect to the scene.
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