Sweeney Todd was originally written as a musical, so the director, Tim Burton, had to add to sounds to the music so to adapt it to Sweeney Todd. He managed this well, through the use of amplified diegetic sounds. Deigetic sounds are sounds which source is visible on the screen such as voices of characters or in this case, sounds made by the objects in the film. Here it can be heard as lightning and creaking cogs.
The lightning is the first deigetic sound heard in the film, at first all you can hear is the musical introduction but when the lightning strikes it brings a sense of reality to the film. This way, it makes the viewer see the film not just as musical as it was always seen. In a way, the deigetic noises are part of Burton re-inventing the film for television.
The creaking cogs also add to this and also makes a more dramatic scene as it sets the viewer on edge. By doing this, the viewer expects something bad could happen at any time which helps to set the genre of horror. As they sounds are stereotypical of the horror genre and are used typically to build up suspense other horror movies.
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