Sound Of Sherlock Holmes & The Glossary

Glossary 

1. Diegetic - The sound that can be heard during a scene or throughout the entire film.

2. Non-Diegetic - The sound that is not natural part of the scene, but is added to create an emotion for example a music score or a narrator.

3. Ambient - A sound used to create a particular atmosphere or a sense of place.

4. SFX - Short for sound effects.

5. Mood - An emotion that the characters feel, that makes the audience have a similar emotion is well.

6. Tone - Sound that references to the scene.

7. Genre - A style or category of a movie e.g. action, adventure, sci-fi or horror.

8. Theme music - A piece of a music made specifically for the movie.

9. Voiceover - A technique where an individuals voice is being played, it is usually done to add effect or add something to the story.

10. Musical Score - A piece of music that is played doing the duration of the film. Which is used to make a scene more special.

11. Synchronous sound - A sound used to match whats going on to a very specific scene.

12. Asynchronous sound - A piece of music used to give out emotion.

13. Contrapuntal - Two pieces of music that is merged together.

14. Silence - When sound is not heard throughout the scene which adds an emotion to that scene.

15. Selective sound - Sound used for one scene, for the reason so it matches what is going on.

16. Sound bridges - A piece of music that carries on from one scene to another.

After watching the opening clip of Sherlock Holmes. The sounds that are Diegetic are the sounds of guns getting cocked up, ready to load as shown in the clip. Another sound in the opening is the window being broken by Sherlock Holmes (played by Robert Downey Jr) to escape the grasps of what looks like the police. Thirdly another sound is the sound of a what looks like a crow flying and roaring as it is shown for only a few seconds. Finally, the last diegetic was the sounds of the horses hooves and the neighing being heard loudly in the entire scene.

The sound that was Non-Diegetic was when you heard throughout the entire scene a score. It started quietly with what sounded like a piano. Then eventually drums could be heard along with a full course orchestra being heard throughout the entire scene. This makes the scene more dramatic and more intense and grips the audience more and more to find out whats going to happen.