WOMAN IN BLACK – SOUND

Kaitlin Lodge

In the opening scene the ambient sound is the sound bridge of creepy music, which immediately creates the scene and makes the audience feel on edge. The high pitched tapping is eerie and unnatralistic which takes away the sense of children playing and having fun as it draws your attention to the eerie music.

Although the score is sound bridged the whole way through, the first diegetic noise is a cup smashing which creates affect on the viewer to make them feel startled and forebodes something bad which is going to happen. Moreover the noise of the cup smashing is louder in comparison to the music, this makes the viewer feel connected like they are actually there in the scene.

The next diegetic sound which creates affect is the girls screaming, by this time the score is coming to a end so the screaming over powers the music playing, the score is lower than the diegetic sound with a deep low pitch, juxtaposing to the screaming which is high pitched and higher volume. It is asynchronous to the clip.

The background music is introduced at the beginning and sound bridged the whole way through, the music is a creepy fun faire theme tune, as fairground music is meant to be happy and fun, this is clearly the binary opposite.

The diegetic voice at the end is a woman/mother screaming ‘my baby’ as the three girls jump out the window, this is mysterious and doesn’t give too much away so it makes viewers want to carry on watching as the women is asynchronous to the camera as she is completely anonymous.