Analysis of Sound - Lord Of The Rings

At the beginning of the clip we hear non- diagetic sound which is the voice-over, this immediately gets the audiences attention as they hear someone talking straight away rather than seeing any credits. The voice-over is played throughout the scene as the women is explaining how the story of the rings began so this turns out to be very important for the audience as it provided them with new information.

Background music which is again non diagetic, the music is very slow and creates an eerie atmosphere. The music is also very mysterious which endures the audience into the film. The music is sound bridged throughout the scene but at some points goes very low/quiet as the scene itself overlaps it. Sounds of a flame are also added into the film to bring the audience in.

Around 40 seconds into the scene the voice-overs tone begins to change into a more serious and deeper/loud tone. We begin to hear many types of diagetic sound at the fighting scenes, we hear the screaming of random people this creates a feel of innocence of these people and makes the audience feel sympathetic. We hear growls and roars of what we would associate with nasty characters and something which are inhuman this means that the film is somewhat of a fantasy, we also hear slashing of swords,shooting of arrows and commands being shouted this build up the audiences adrenaline as we know there is violence approaching, it also means that the film is going to be very violent

Parralell sound is also used as the deep, loud music matches to the violent scenes.