Yes, the sounds in this piece were very important to create the setting. There aren’t really any layers of audio in this piece but the absence of audio is very well used. Dialogue was used very lightly throughout, there was dialogue between characters but only once, and I think this is important because it really singles that scene out more than others, and shows the significance overall of the scene. There weren’t visual aspects correlating with the dialogue but there were different edits of angles and shots while the dialogue was occurring.

The most important time when sound effects were used is when the  children began pulling out their “weapons” and they made noises like they were actually real. This was a really cool way of editing in audio effects because it told me that these kids believed that they were real weapons that could be used to fend of their enemy. This scene made it concrete in my mind that it was a group of kids waging war against adulthood.

There was a xylophone used in the beginning of the piece, and all throughout until the piece was about  half way over. It was an eerie sounding instrumental, and in most parts where it was used it was an isolated sound so I think that it played its role in the piece well by making the viewer uncomfortable. Later in the piece the camera pans to a kid actually playing a xylophone and stopping to come join the battle against the adults. The xylophone came back into the scene right before the credits began so in a way the use of that one song told me that the children won the war against time and the kids began playing again as they were before.

• Saved: 3-Sound and Image, A3