Monday, January 30, 2012

This link can be used to view the clip from 0:09 - 0:26 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=_g0mUyH6dI8#t=10s


Screenplay

This scene does and excellent job of displaying the different types of listening modes. The first is obviously, casual, as when Brennan slices the bag of Doritos open that is the actual sound it makes, it crunches and rips. Same with when Brennan kicks the pumpkin or Dale punches it, or when they break the boards or put the Mentos in the Diet Pepsi, these are all the actual sounds that are being made. The screams and shouts they do, however, are semantic they are not actually being heard how they were originally made. The yells are echoed and exaggerated to seem louder and more forceful. This is done to give the audience a sense of the excitement and ferocity of which these men enjoy their absurd tasks.

Another well represented aspect is time. By using the upbeat, fast-paced non-diagetic music and trailing the yells and shouts of Brennan and Dale between multiple shots, they establish subjective time in which, we see a very short amount of things happening but we know that much more time has passed between each action, as is the usual with montage. They're also able to use speed and loudness through the shouts made by the men, these are loud, quick shouts and this is to insure a sense of passed time. If the cries were softer and slower, we'd be more focused on them and thus time would seem to slow down.

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