Film Technique--How Sound affect Comedy（1）

According to my investigation, I know that the effective of comedy film can be improved when the sound is added into the comedy film.

"According to 'the space out of the frame',  it cause someone dramatic. this effective is always dramatically, for example, comedic,  tragic, etc. Sound always combines different situations to let audiences feel a change and vivid, according character's different mood, listen to the sound, and with the plot to cry or laugh, that can be caused a strong drama effect......because the sound in comedy, the comedy film get a unexpected comedy effect."(1)

Then, how to use sound to improve the comedy effect? First one is Music.

"Music tells us a lot and it can replace words if it is further emphasized by good body language and facial expressions.".(4)

from this, we can conclude that music can affect the whole atmosphere in comedy, and different music style can give different feeling to audiences. For instant, <4>, 

"This cartoon actually rely plot on the background music and body language to explain the story. They use a louder sound when Tom is walking and a softer and more animated sound effect when Jerry is walking. This is related to their size obviously. When they are happy, sad, scared, angry or shocked, the music will change accordingly to tell us the mood of the character. "(4)

The second one is language. there are different genres in language, and the dialect, and accent are popular in language genres.

"dialect is a particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group"--from Oxford Dictionaries.

Dialect has a nice effective in comedy, from this, Chinese films are prominent, such as <The Crazy stone>by Hao Ning, <Joy> by Gan A, <bullfighting>by Hu Guan, and <My Own Swordsman>....., all of they are dialect comedy film.

"dialect element can improve the comedy effect extremely, because of the comedy films is a entertainment form from grassroots plebification in essence. Only in the dialect environment,  the grassroots characters in comedy can highlight the value of the life."(<Talk about the dialect element in chinese comedy films in the new century>, Huan Jiao, 2012)

The Russian and Soviet critic, writer, and pamphleteer--Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky created "Estrangement" theory, he said that, the condition of language estrangement is the art estrangement. So, dialect is more estrange and natural than standardized universal language, and reduce the "fatigue" by Mandarin dialogs. 

the effect in comedy.

1. Aid to character development.

"every language include a different worldview", "human created the language from themselves, but because this, they fetter themselves in language."said by Wilhelm von Humboldt--A Prussian philosopher, government functionary, diplomat, linguist and founder of the University of Berlin.

so, different dialect can show the personality of the speaker. When the character in film use dialect, the personality of character will be show.

2.Aid to make comedy effect on atmosphere.

"dialect saved the happy, vivid ethos from grassroots better than Mandarin, so that have more animate, and make more comedy effect."(3)

Argument:

in the dialect comedy movies, it also has some argument. some people think that,

"....the mix and collisions of different dialect restore living in the truth, for make and characterization the character has the key role. "
(2)

But another people think that,

"there are more different of culture and living between in the dialect, a dialect comedy film can be get the nice reaction in location, but the other area's audiences cannot understand the humor form, because of lack the background knowledge in the dialect comedy, and cannot feel funny."(3)

In conclusion, the music and dialect in sound can improve the comedy effective.

Reference:

1. Sheng Yu. (2013). The Artistic Charm of Movie sound's model. Publish Art. 7, 22-24.

2. Bo Zhao. (2009). Talking to The Sound Art in The Film 'The crazy stone'. Publish Art. 3, 58-59.

3. Huan Jiao. (2012). Talk about the dialect element in chinese comedy films in the new century. Modern Film. 8, 22-23.

4. Amarit, (04/02/2008) wordpress, http://amarit04.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/tom-and-jerry-use-of-music-to-narrate-story/, 22/10/2013