Sound

Mise-en-scene

Sound in Film

In this Sherlock Holmes Opening Scene, the first thing you hear is some Orchestral music. Orchestra music is often played when something big is going to happen. At 0:15 you start to hear horses neighing loudly like as if there's a battle that's ready to be started. Also at 0:30 there are different sorts of instruments that is being played until the end of the video with very fast tempo. This emphasises that what ever it is, is becoming closer to an origin. In the middle of the opening scene they show two men in a carriage reloading then looking at each others eyes. This suggests that they are ready for what is about to happen. At the end of the video after the crow flies off the man is  running from the enemies and he finds an escape route and that moment where he finds his exit, a dramatic sound effect goes off with a fade out to show that he's made it out safely.

There were many sounds and sound effects  being used for example:

Piano (non-diegetic)

Crow

Horses Jogging

Gun Reloads

Footsteps

Door opens

Horse Whipping





Glossary

1. Diegetic - SOund whose source is visible on the screen or whose source is implied to be present by the action of the film.

2. Non-Diegetic - Non-diegetic sound is represent as coming from a source outside the story space. 

3. Ambient -genre of instrumental music that focuses on sound patterns more than melodic form and is used to create a certain atmosphere or state of mind.

4. SFX - Sound Effect

5. Mood - Happy or sad music

6. Tone - a musical sound of definite pitch, consisting of several relatively simple constituents called partial tones, the lowest of which is called the fundamental tone

7. Genre - A music genre is a conventional category that identifies pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions.

8. Theme Music - In music, a theme is the material, usually a recognizable melody upon which part or all of composition is based. 

9. Voice Over - a piece of narration in a film or broadcast, not accompanied by an image of the speaker.

10. Musical Score - It's the script for the musicians. 

11. Synchronous - This is when a sound effect is matched with another technical event or action.

12. Asynchronous - This is when a sound originates from outside of the diegetic reality of the film.

13. Contrapuntal - Noise or sound effect which doesn't match the visuals, often juxtaposed to create alternative meaning.

14. Silence - No sound

15. Selective sound - The  removal of some sounds and the retention of others to make significant sounds more recognizable, or for dramatic effect

16. Sound Bridges - Music that links one scene to another. For example outside/inside and past/present.