"Drive" - Ryan Gosling - Purpose of the Sound Effects

The purpose of sound effects is to build tension and suspense, tension and suspense is built by not knowing the answer to what is doing to happen, and makes you automatically think about the bad things that could happen, not the good things. The film does this ot make you imagine what will haoppen next, your own idea of what will happen, the creator does this to make the audience think and even worry because you automatically think about the bad things (audience thoughts). This also creates the idea that something is going to happen in the audiences mind, by giving the audience information of danger but not knowing it will be ok.

Sound effects from "Drive":

Watch on steering wheel:
The watch on the steering wheel creates tension and suspense because of the ticking noise, because it shows the audience that something is going to happen, but it doesn't tell them what, and makes them Imaging bad things that could happen rather than good things that could happens, a ticking watch also makes an eery atmosphere. This also entertains the audience because of the fact they know something is going to happen.
Police scanner:
The police scanner in the clip builds a lot of tention and suspense because it makes the audience wonder where abouts the police actually are, and makes the audience think about bad things that could happen, and whether or not the police are going to catch them doing the robbery.
Alarm:
The alarm creates tension because it is a loud earpeircing noise and would make the audience jump and watch and worry about what is going to happen, also because it is unexpected it would make people panic about what is going to happen.
Ball game on radio:
The ball game on the radio creates suspense and confusion because it makes the audience wonder why the actor would change the police radio to the ball game, and make them more confused about what is going to happen and whether or not anything is going to happen around the ball game.
Gun shot:
The gun shot is good in the clip because it tells the audience that something terrible is going to happen and connotes that ther is bad and good in the clip. I would also make the audience wonder whether or not there is going to be a death in the clip or whether or not someone is already dead. It also breaks the silence in the clip.
Music:
The music is good in the clip because it establishes the genre in the clip, for instance the gun shot and the police sirens along with the music shows that the film is probably going to be a crime thriller. It also creates a lot of tension in the clip "Drive" because of the type of music that is being played. The music alos shows the tone of the clip and tells the audience that it is a serious film.
Crickets:
The sound of crickets at the beginning to end is a relaxing noise, and soon as that is the only thing you can hear at the beginning it would relax the audience at first but then when all of the other noise breaks out it would make them panic and get more hyped up for the action. Also throughout the clip the crickets get louder and louder which in some aspects adds to the tension.