

This was brought about when Anna saw a picture of Neville’s daughter, Marley. The music used is when Neville discovers that the young woman that rescues him has never heard of Bob Marley. Can you identify specific sounds in your film that allow you to infer a particular genre?

In fact, he thinks that he is the last man alive until Anna and Ethan save him after he has a mental breakdown. It shows that there is not another person near Neville. The quiet town having only the sounds of what is left of nature in it, really made each scene. How does the use of sound inform the mood of the scene, or the film overall? His efforts to scrounge for food and supplies during the day eventually lead him on a search for a cure for the virus, one that he famously finds but is made somewhat irrelevant by his discovery that it is he who is the ultimate monster in need of execution.” (Filmtracks) One of the most intensifying things is when the wind was blowing which paints a picture in mind which is the loneliness and lack of living in the city of New York. “Its original premise involved a “last man alive” scenario in contemporary Los Angeles, with one average man immune to a virus that has eliminated most of humanity and turned the remainder into vampires that seek to kill him during nighttime hours. Assess the impact of sound in establishing the theme.

The dialogue in I AM LEGEND is/was well extensive when it came to him trying to explain how may time he has tried to come up with a cure and it not being successful. Explain how the different categories of sound are being used in your chosen film.

Music create a convincing pervading tone or a moody setting if I may put it, it helps tell your story in the way you want and still be able to strike a very emotional cord, in which all put together can wow your audience and hopefully make them keep asking for more. Sound effects are the added sounds that provides or completes the action of the film, equally, some sound effects are known to carry symbolic meaning as-well. Sound effects are something that we turn not to really think much of, but the quality of it is what makes or break the moment on the screen.
