Sound Dissection

The use of staticky weather reflects the use or muddy green and grey colours used to create a semi-hostile environment. the silence of the men accept for their movements juxtaposes the constant noises coming from the dog and the ball when bounced. Creating the sense to the viewer that the two main focuses of this short to begin with are the ball and dog. So when the sound of the ball and dog suddenly stop you realise that the change in atmosphere is about to begin and the context of the short is about to change. The fact that the music to show the aliens have arrived is more electronic and manufactured compared to the use of only environmental noises and the noises of the men moving implicates a sense of out of placeness which would cause the listener a sense of wariness towards this new sound. When the sound of the gun, louder than any other sound so far in the shot is released it creates a sense of shock and feels extremely out of place, however by them doing this it mimics alien itself, it's sounds are out of place in this environment and the killing of the dog is sudden and without remorse much like the music accompanying it. The change back to the pace and level of music afterwards really cements the concept that the alien neither understands the kind of situation they have just now created nor the implications linked to their actions. 

This Kind of disembodied narration is something I really like as a method of mixing music and sound together, in away that can be either informative as in this case or atmospheric. You feel partially like Goofy in this as you are both put into the same scenario of having to listen to a voice you cant see.