In the extract we watched from "Serenity", sound adds greatly to the effect of the scene. In the background is an instrumental song, involving strings, which is fairly fast paced and is clearly building up to something big. The tune then really takes off when fighting starts happening. Lots of machinery is also heard. There is lots of clattering and clanging and banging etc. You can hear engines starting and other ships flying, and a lot of the sounds sound foreign and futuristic, mainly because we don't fly around in spaceships at the moment. We also hear a gun being cocked before the crew fly out to the city, which makes us realise that they mean business, as it sounds like an incredibly big gun.
During the big chase scene towards the end of the extract, bullets can be heard whizzing past the heads of the protagonists, which really makes us feel like we are there with them, in the hovercraft/spaceship. The background score also picks up the pace and gets louder, which adds the excitement of the whole event. A character is also shot, and we hear a loud gunshot which seems to jump out of nowhere, and surprises us. The so-called "Reapers" which are the villains, make strange grunting noises and sound rather terrifying to listen to. There are lots of sounds in this extract, which is typical of the Si-Fi genre, as otherwise we would not believe that it was real.
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