general choice of sound
- ominous/bad: low tonal drone
- surveillance: loud high frequency buzz
- final ending music contrasts with erythidng
- uses immediate dialogue with no visuals to present focus
- rawness/truth of the dialogue (and arguably Snowden’s good job at phrasing) makes it more compelling
- nat sound without visuals provide additional focus
- background music modulates emotional valence
- fairly significant use of nat packages to emphasize reality
- the tone of the reading also modulates the opinion
- the confrontation of the court creates tension
- parallel contrasting statements
- transition to Snowden interview feels relatively peaceful compared to the beginning, which is drawing attention in its own way
- the jovial nature being in the room contrasts to the serious issue at hand
- the cuts are really quite hard: to emphasize contrast between loud news breaks and the quietness of the hotel room—especially large contrast with regards to Ed Snowden’s wife being raided, etc., which is rather peaceful
- or the quiet of TV television as compared to the loud noise of the nat package behind
the lack of speaking from the camera operator/sounds behind the makes the scene much more intimate
- i.e. this feels like a private conversation between a few people, despite there being what appears to be an entire camera crew with Laura (and she rarely speaks from behind the camera expect during the identity bits)
- the contrast of tensions is really interesting
TANGENT: Glen Greenwald seems to be pushing Snowden (“I’m not going to hide”)
- begin of the Monday clip with the time ticking highlights the intensity
- the light from the reporter traking glen into the elevator (dark) cotrasts with the hotel (light)
- the microphone close to Snowden’s chest amplifies heart rate
- The rest of it feels really dull in a sharp contrast, as a fallout.
- The British government feels more powerful, which is also why when TEMPORA is introduced the low humming ominous sounds are replaced with loud pearcing sounds
- TANGENT: its really weird to be seeing people putting away phones but then there’s a whole camera
- the low droning voice returns promising government pressure, while the high buzzing noise returns when surveillance was covered