Dogville-The charm of sound
Sound enriches thefilm, not only for the scene, also for the audience sound feeling. For the film, Dogville, good storytelling and actors’ performance make the film get the scholar in each global film fest. Dogville was directed in an unusual Sound looks like a supporting role to set off the film. In fact, sound is an important role in the whole film program. Because of the sound of design, Dogville gets the global film fest scholar.
About the performance of the film, screen storytelling can perform more information than the actor’s lines. For the other means, if the film tries to tell the audience by the actor’s speaking to introduce the story plot, the lines play an important and meaningful meaning in the film. At the start of the film, the camera shoots the Dogville in an overlook degree. During the shooting, a voice which contains the strong history telling feeling and full of magnetism plays by the loud speaker. When the camera gradually focuses on the region called“Thomas Edison’s House”, the sound end. Significantly, the film is narrated by a placid older male voice. The voice has three function to enrich the film storytelling. First, a film which via the voice to connect and definite the story happens and each character’s emotion. Off screen voice combines with the movie. This way makes the film in the each one second can perform more information. Second, this voice in the film we called off screen voice. Off screen voice can (Linda ,2010).Contemporary film Directors New Haven: Manufactures in the United States of America.
) not only create or simulate the reality sound environment, drive atmosphere and enhance the feeling of the reality life. It also helps film maker to do character shaping and architect the background film time and space. Finally, the off screen voice design has a special meaning. The book, Mapping Home in contemporary Narratives, records the film “Dog Ville”. In this book, chapter 9 writes the discussion about the “Dogville”. The book recorded a paragraph. At the end of the film, this omniscient narrator announces that “Dog Ville might be off the beaten track, but was hospitable nonetheless.” This sentence means the director, Lars von Trier, compare the difference from the film start the off screen voice tell the story background to the end of the film with a bad ending. Then add a paragraph to come true his ironic film performance device.“It is powerful for the film to wake up audience and the film makers to consider the critique of reality humanity bad quality ideology.”
Sound design is an important program. As a film director, his imagination covers the film screen performance and the sound combination. “Dog Ville” has a special sound design work. Because the characters are set in a drama stage. This picture shows the actors should pay a little attention on how to pretend the real environment to complete their performance. Director tries to enhance the foley effect to restore the reality life environment and lead the audience to pay attention on the storytelling to ignore the simple and crude film stage environment. For the original film sound design, foley the sound effect means there are some typical scene and thing natural sound which can lead audience to associate these things. Dog Ville has a virtual site region to divide each room function. It seems like a model house design plan. The sound of open and close the door, the wind and the nightmare silence voice. Via the foley, the film could come true the director design.
Background music a film typical. Appropriate background music will lead an amazing feeling to audience. Dog Ville’s back ground music is included in the album, Manderlay. The music “Dogville Overture”, “Dogville Theme”, “Happy Times in Dogville” are all the environment music to render the Dogville each time people’s daily life and festival life time. “Dogville Overture” select the violin to be the theme first instrument and play in a slow rhythm. Violoncello plays a support role in this music play. Match these two instruments, one plays the high frequency sound region aims to stimulate film story start way and audience emotion.Another one plays the low frequency sound region to control the music rhythm and film rhythm. The slow rhythm can be better to simulate the man tell a story. Meanwhile, background music, dubbing actor’s voice and the film screen combine in a same scene. “Grace Gets Angry”, this music aims perform the film heroine, Grace, she become angry and her inner emotion change. As we know from the background music for environment, violin owns a high frequency sound region playing function. It can stimulate human’s emotion. However, which instrument can perform a people who was in painful at first then change to mad and angry.If one person become angry, his or her breathe time will prolong and the throat will phonate a low frequency and tedious voice. So, trombone can complete this work to perform Grace’s emotion change. In the music “Grace Gets Angry”,trombone control the music rhythm and stands the heroine, Grace, who becomes angry not directly angry. In the film scene, Grace angry performance is sulk.Like the storm makes people feel scare and terror. This horror feeling gradually touch the other Dogville people and audience. This music in the film means the film come to the catastasis, Grace’s angry means the Dogville will face Grace’s revenge, an eye for an eye. She looks around the Dogville people and think back what they did before. Then, revenge.
Reference:
Linda Badley.(2010).Contemporary film DirectorsNew Haven: Manufactures in theUnited States of America.
