Mock DIRT 2019

Analyse how sound is used in the extract to create meaning. Refer to at least two examples from the extract in your answer.

sound is used to present police officers as useless in the extract. The non diegetic music is intimidating and heavy when the truck is first shown. Then the police officers are in the cafe with non diegetic music. This created a friendly tone showing how oblivious they are to the truck situation. Then the getaway car approaches accompanied by non diegetic meaning music. while the girls are talking about Jake. Oblivious to the truck approaching they discuss how Jake's 'easy on the eye'. Furthermore after the truck crashes into the store and one officer tries to call for help, 'urgent assistance', she is out of breath having not done much. The now redundant police sirens, approaching doesn't bring hope as the diegetic tire screech of the getaway car shows that they could have more power than the police

Analyse how far the extract depicts the police's point of view rather than the criminal's point of view.

Furthermore the viewer hears more diegetic sounds related with the police officers than diegetic sounds associated with the criminals. The overwhelming diegetic sound effect of police sirens are blasting for the majority of the duration of the extract, whereas the diegetic sounds coming from the criminals like tire screeching and glass mashing, is hardly featured in comparison to the police sirens and shouting from the officers. 

How far does the extract try to create a sense that it is portraying 'real life'?

The extract portrays realism successfully by designing multiple sets, The extract opens in a police detective's office. The set designers would have decided to position the desk, the chairs, and even the small details such as the pencils on the desk; these things create a realist mood. In the next scene, it takes place in a cafe. The set designers have shutdown a cafe to shoot there, or created the set in a studio. Every little things from the napkins to cups would've been placed specifically This creates a realist mood for the audience

             Also portraying real life would've been the actors. They would turn up in their usual clothes and get changed into their costume for the scene. The costume designers also made the costumes relate to the scene and story, resembling real life.