Sound Effects - Drive P1

Sound Effect Analysis – Drive

1)   The purpose of diegetic sound is to help set and creative the scene with tension and also to establish the main point in the scene, for example in the sequence you can hear the police radio talks about the heist that is happening and how close they are to your location, which makes you feel anxious, just incase they get caught. The extra little sounds helps to create the atmosphere like the door sensor beeping helps toward the tension, but the sound of running commentary coming from the basketball games give a sense of relaxation which you can tell that the driver is quite relaxed.  The purpose is to entertain and emphasis the genre which is crime thriller.

2)   The main character is sitting in his car as he is the getaway driver for two criminals who are about to do an armed robbery. The main character (Ryan Gosling) who pulls up at the scene were the two robbers are waiting for him so they can commit the robbery and jump in his car, you then see them run over to the gate, cut the chains and then shoot the lock of the back door. The shot gun sounds lets the audience see how serious they are about with what they are doing and it has quite a big impact as when the shot gun shoes off there isn’t much back ground sounds like common traffic sounds or any other sounds that are out the car, this is why the bang of the shotgun is so loud because it goes from just having diegetic internal sounds to an external bang. The loud bang makes you feel anxious for them hoping they will make is out in time. But they’ll have to be quick because Ryan has a rule which is a 5 minute window were if they are not back with-in 5 minutes then he will drive off and leave them.

After you hear the gunshots, Ryan turns the police radio up, this is good piece of diegetic sounds that help create tension because you hear the police say what kind of car Ryan is in and also the location of the car. During the point were you can hear the police radio and the criminals are still in the shop you can hear a various different amount of sounds which give you mixed feeling in the scene as you can hear the basketball commentary, the shop alarm and the clock ticking which is very valuable in the scene as it the main diegetic tension builder because it is louder then it usually be , and also the non-diegetic sound in the background which is fast constant beats then suddenly you hear the back door of the shop swing open and the criminal comes running out and jumps in the back and you can hear him breath heavily as if he is scared or nervous which makes you feel a bit on the edge of your seat.