#12 Audio
The film's opening's opening is a black screen with only two things, the TITLE CARD! and rising audio. This sound will be that of three things: music, a dog's barking, and loud knocking. Now the music sounds very clear and clean, it's clearly non-diegetic however the black screen cuts to the main character's room and not only do all of the sounds become slightly muffled and less loud than they were before, the music now sounds as if it's coming from a radio, as we have switched from non-diegetic to diegetic. The story takes place in the 2000's and the radio that the music is coming from is owned by a depressed and aimless man who was probably quite careless with the machine, the music is going to come out very gargled. We are using music by the artist Elliot Fullam who's music fits perfectly into that classic 2000's aesthetic (even if it was made today).
Sound is an important part for this opening since it displays his lack of awareness of what's going on around him. He clearly doesn't care about or know whats happening around him and hears everything through a muffled or quiet filter. However his life doesn't have any tranquility and he is constantly berated by loud sounds that he can not seem to control and only ever drag him down lower and lower through his spiraling sanity.
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