“Coal Miner’s Daughter” is filed with unique sound design for it is a film centered on sound. It uses creative ways to help tell the story through sound from sound effects to dialogue. The sound design of the film help to shape the environment of the coal miners and how they live their lives with the noise of machines and the place where Loretta lives. Each sound has a purpose and is not put into the film without a reason to emphasize a specific aspect of the story. The scenes change and the sound helps to transition from one place to another so the viewer can understand that the environment is changing, This film progresses from country to city gradually and with that the sound has to change to match with the times.
Dialogue can also be apart
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of the sound design because capturing good, clean dialogue is key for a successful film. Without dialogue it would be harder to a tell a story so it is important apart of the sound design of a movie to accomplish getting good sound. Sound effects are helpful in emphasizing any part of the film and help pull the viewer into the world of the characters. In this film a scene that uses sound design to help tell a part of the story is when Loretta is learning to play guitar. Mooney gives her the guitar and she starts to learn while time is progressing we still hear the sounds of everyday life weaving between music and her singing. These sounds help the audience to understand that time is moving faster yet it still shows us Loretta gradually learning to become a singer. Music is such a big part of this film because it about a country singer making her way into the music industry. The film uses Loretta’s music as well as non-diegetic music that is weaved throughout the film to help passage of time. Music can be a powerful tool in a film and make the viewer feel more or less emotionally involved. Most of the music in the film has a country style to it because the film is about the country music industry so this adds to the look of the film, which is country. There is a lot of Loretta’s music played in the movie as she performs it or it is played to show that Loretta’s music is slowly taking off and becoming more popular. An interesting part of the film is when we see Loretta writing music and she is trying to figure out a song and when she does we then hear the full version. This is creative because the audience can see the whole process it took to write that song. How much effort and work that went into writing it will pull the audience to feel an emotion connection to the protagonist. Music is what this film is about, how Loretta became of the most admired country singers of all time.
Music tells a story within a song and this is what Loretta does with her music by singing about her life as a coal miner’s daughter to life as a mother and wife. The movie incorporates these songs to the soundtrack of the movie because it is a film about Loretta’s life and how she became a music sensation in a time when it was harder for a woman to gain recognition for her accomplishments. The underlying music mixed with Loretta’s songs really helps to tell a wonderful story about Loretta’s life and her husband’s life with their challenges and overcoming …show more content…
struggles. Editing is the invisible art of any movie because it goes unnoticed by many viewers.
The editing in “Coal Miner’s Daughter” is beautifully done and tells the story without being to cliché. One of the scenes that is edited well is towards the end of the movie when Loretta is having a breakdown and does not want to perform and Mooney says she has to go on because a lot of people are expecting her. This is a moment when something is going to change either for the better or worse and editing helps to intensify this moment with close ups between Loretta and Mooney. Mooney was forced to come back on tour with her and Loretta is tired of the spotlight, their relationship is teetering on the edge of falling apart. Will Mooney let her fall or help her get through or breakdown and will she perform? The edits flash from her crying while Mooney watches to the expecting audience. The editing allows for the moment to build until finally she performs, but we still do not know if her and Mooney will stay together. While she is performing onstage she stops the band and gives a speech about how she got to where she was and the price she had to give to get there. There is cutting back and forth between her and Mooney and by the end you can understand that she Mooney will last and continues to be there for each other. This is told through editing one of the most powerful tools in films. No words or sounds are needed to understand the reactions that are passing between the two characters we only
to see them to understand their thoughts and this cannot be done without editing. Another scene where the editing sticks out is when Loretta meets Mooney at the beginning of the film. It fast but relevant because no words are exchanged just a cut to her and then to him is all it takes to suggest that something is about to happen between them. We also see t how the father feels about Mooney when it cuts to him pulling Loretta out of Mooney’s eyesight and the look the father gives Mooney says it all without words. During this scene is also setting up where the characters are and how the people feel in the town about their work as miners. Editing portrays emotions of characters with just a simple cuts and because of this the viewer is able to understand that conflict is about to happen between Loretta, Mooney and Loretta’s father, which helps set up the rest of the movie.
In 1883, the first carload of coal was transported from Tazewell County, Virginia, on the Norfolk and Western Railway. The railroad opened a gateway to the untouched coal beds of West Virginia. Towns were created as the region was transformed from an agricultural to industrial economy.(West Virginia Mine Wars) The lure of good wages and housing made the coal mining appealing to West Virginians, but all good things come at a price. In the novel Storming Heaven, Denise Giardina gives us an inside look at what really happened to the small town of Annedel, West Virginia. Whether the four characters that tell the story are fictional or based in part on actual events that took place, it hits home considering where we live. The story is based on four different perspectives of four citizens struggling to survive under the reign of a powerful coal company. I am sure anyone from this area has had a family or knows of someone who has worked in the mines. If you sit down and talk to these older people who worked in the mines they all have compelling tales of events that have been handed down from generation to generation.
Singing was also very important in the play. Most often, the songs that were sung in the play were used in conjuction with lighting to create the mood. Deep, slow songs indicated that times were changing from good to bad, or from bad to worse. High, fast songs introduced happy scenes. Scenes were also changed according to song, such as the jail scene. The cast began to sing a song about freedom and the jail bars disappeared, indicating through song that the men had been freed. Also, song was important in the play because the songs were specific to the african american culture.
This movie is based on a true story, about four extraordinary Aboriginal women. Sisters Laurel Robinson, Lois Peeler and their cousins Beverley Briggs and Naomi Mayers. They were part of an extended family of brothers and sisters who regularly sang together during the 1960s and 70’s. Laurel and Lois toured Vietnam in the late 1960s singing to the American troops which was an amazing feat, considering that Aboriginal people had only just gained the right to vote. All four of these women still live in Australia and all have important roles within the community.
Family life was hard and time-consuming, during the 1930’s. Loretta Lynn, born the first child of her seven siblings in 1932. Her parents, Ted and Clara Webb, raised the family in Butcher Holler, Kentucky. During this time, Loretta and her family budgeted tightly, sharing the countries financial crisis. Centered around Butcher Holler, Kentucky, the movie depicted insights what coal mining families experienced do the little they had. The movie showed many houses made of wood and mud. This parallel Loretta states “it was a very nice and insolated house, but annual repairs were mandatory” (Loretta Lynn 34). This financial struggle pointed to the “coal mining operation; affected by the British companies invested coal in the Unites States companies” (European Union para. 1). Not receiving a higher pay due the massive production of coal mining, families were tight resource users. Even the film portrayed a scene shows the Webb family getting brand new pairs of shoes and the excitement they had. One song that Loretta wrote, she said they only got one pair of shoes a year. Kids went the summer without shoes, and getting new ones when winter approached. However, even though the Webb...
Sound as we discuss in our discussion question section, sound plays a significant role in every scene, it helps the audience in many ways such as to know the audience what is going to happen or to get the into the character. Now on days many directors increase realism brought on by sound inevitable forced acting styles to become more natural the scene can be identifying a digetic sound. Many people may think that the sound effect that a director use in a movie, novella or documentary is the same, they are totally confused, its two types of sound such as digetic sound and non digetic sound
The sound effects grabbed my attention and continued to make me yearn for what could come next. The sounds bring me to a place where I can’t help but believe in the situation that’s happening. The music heightens my mood and helps create illusion. For example, the first extraordinary sound technique I noticed that the filmmaker used was the echo effect. It was not only used to support the mood the characters were at, but also to express that idea of the ‘emptiness’ in them. This technique dominated the audio when I was taken to a story in the film of a boy who was 18 and poisoned by his own sister. Those are some of the dominant examples of sound usage throughout the movie The Poisoners Handbook. The entirety of the soundtrack is a solid cocoon for the film to stretch and grow
A soundtrack is a key role in any movie and subsequently positions viewers to emotionally react, provoking a deeper thought of what is transpiring in the scene, targeting the mood portrayed. Good morning, I’d like to thank you for having me here today, being given the opportunity to provide an Australian musical composition, which is best effective in the selected scene. Sung by the outstanding Australian artist, Sia Furler’s, Breathe Me is a worldwide selling single that alludes to many themes explored in the film, Jasper Jones, such as relationships, and identity. The scene that best fits this song and connects with the viewers on an emotional level, is of Laura running to the woods, where she ultimately ends her life. While the musical composition was originally penned about a drug addiction, the lyrics can be interpreted in many ways, linking impeccably to those in Jasper Jones. I will discuss this through the poetic devices of repetition and symbolism, which I feel are the most powerful in conveying the themes.
The movie Lady Day: The Many Faces Of Billie Holiday paints an interesting, and thought provoking portrait of one of jazz and blues most charismatic, and influential artists. The incomparable talent of Billie Holiday, both truth and legend are immortalized in this one-hour documentary film. The film follows Holiday, also referred to as “Lady Day” or “Lady”, through the many triumphs and trials of her career, and does it’s very best to separate the facts from fiction. Her autobiography Lady Sings The Blues is used as a rough guide of how she desired her life story to be viewed by her public. Those who knew her, worked with her, and loved her paint a different picture than this popular, and mostly fictional autobiography.
use of the camera the sound and the mise en scene. I will analyze the
When the United States was taking shape a nation, many events took place, and they played an important role in defining the country in different ways. One theme that comes up is the role women played in the development of America as a nation. For long, the society has been focusing on the role of men from different races and ethnicities in the development of America. The women of the Great Plains are among those that the American society had failed to recognize on many fronts, including their lives before America started to become a great nation in the mid-nineteenth century. These women lived between the Appalachian Mountains and the Rocky Mountains horizontally and between Arctic Circle and Mexico vertically, where the land is
Take for example Mama Morton’s “When You’re Good To Mama,” this number not only introduces Mama, but it also exposes the way in which things are run in the Cook County Jail, where Roxie and Velma are inmates. The song “We Both Reached for The Gun” is imperative to the musical as it tells Roxie’s story from Billy Flynn’s perspective, which ultimately attains her discharge from jail. Chicago is packed with great energizing songs that always seem to reach several climaxes as they build momentum towards a big musical orgasm, as is the case with the last song of the film, “Nowadays”, where Roxie and Velma perform together on stage for the first time. Regardless of their function, all the songs in the soundtrack have a certain finesse that makes the movie a real auditory delight. In conclusion, everyone who enjoys the magic of Broadway and the fantasy world of Hollywood must watch Chicago.
As an audience we are manipulated from the moment a film begins. In this essay I wish to explore how The Conversation’s use of sound design has directly controlled our perceptions and emotional responses as well as how it can change the meaning of the image. I would also like to discover how the soundtrack guides the audience’s attention with the use of diegetic and nondiegetic sounds.
The coal miner’s daughter, an instrumental film, was voted as an Academy Award Winning Motion Picture. This motion picture depicts an adolescent’s girl’s life, and her journey of living in a small coal mining town to becoming one of the world’s most known country female stars. This film was shaped to show the personal life of Loretta Lynn. Coal Miner’s Daughter demonstrates the life stumbling blocks of family struggles, significant friends, and emotional ploys of life’s pains.
Sound is what brings movies to life, but, not many viewers really notice. A film can be shot with mediocre quality, but, can be intriguing if it has the most effective foley, sound effects, underscore, etc. Sound in movies band together and unfold the meaning of the scenes. When actors are speaking, the dialogue can bring emotion to the audience, or, it can be used as the ambient sound. Music is one of the main things to have when filmmaking. The use of Claudia Gorbman’s Seven Principles of Composition, Mixing and Editing in Classical Film gives audiences a perspective of sound, and, how it can have an impact on them.
Sound is important in film and how it is used to drive a narrative progression. I will analyse how and why in this essay. Covering the history of sound in films and the essential component it plays in the film industry.