Call the midwife

Call the midwife- sound unit Vanessa

At the beginning of call the midwife they use a theme tune which is also called a jingle which is used in every episode this is for identity so when everyone hears that theme music then they think of call the midwife. They use diagetical sounds to make the scene more realistic and also to show what is going on behind the music also they use digateical sounds such as buses, cars, baby crying people talking all over the music which is called aural landscape and it all sounds a bit busy in the scene so, this indicates that people are in a rush to go somewhere.

After the opening scene incidental music is used throughout of the being of call the mid wife also aural landscape music is use and changed to suit the situation of the scene so for example at the beginning when everyone was rushing there was very upbeat music to show that the scene is going fast and something is going to happen next and when the baby was born the music was more subtle to show that the scene is very calm and peaceful so in different types of situations there is new background music to suit it.they use folley sounds such as the baby crying was used to make it feel more realistic to the audience.

In this scene at the beginning there was no silence this is because a lot was going on in them three minutes that they had to use each second to fit in as much in as they could just to hook in the audience.

Different types of accents are used in the beginning of the episode accents usually give us information about the characters for example if a character with a posh accent was talking then it would show us their social calls same as someone with an east London accent was speaking it would show us their social class it was also tells us in call the midwife that the couple with the received pronunciation accent would be more higher in power seeing as call the mid wife is set in the olden days. This gives us more of an idea of what sort of life style each character has purely based on their accent.

In the scene of when the lady was conceiving the baby her what looked like to be her husband was waiting outside and he looked very nervous to suit his nervousness the music became even more upbeat which indicated that he was nervous and there was tension of what is going to happen next for the viewers and the man in the show. Whilst the lady was giving birth over the dialogue of the mid wife’s talking really fast to try and calm down the lady the music in the background was still very upbeat to show thing important is happening they also use very upbeat music so the viewers know that at end of the music something interesting is going to happen which is another reason to why they used this type of music through on the scenes of the husband the lady giving birth.

There was a voice over used for the audience to understand what is going on because of the change of the scenery where it went from the baby to another scene of people going about their normal lives.

To do with all these sounds being used and the accents from the dialogue we have more of an idea of what is going on or what might happen in the episode just for listening to the first 3 minutes of call the midwife this shows how powerful and meaningful just sounds alone could be and how they can tell a story even without anyone having to see the actual scene its self.