Sound Effect and Animation in Dragons: Race to the Edge

Pictures and sound always play an important role in creating an excellent movie. With the sound effect, especially background music, the audience can understand what the scene wants to talk about. This week, another cartoon just pops up in my mind, and this is Dragons: Race to the Edge. Through this blog, I am going illustrate the sound effect and the animation in the movie.

Dragons: Race to the Edge is an extra series following the plot of the popular movie How to train your Dragons 2. The series continues telling the story about Hiccup and his friends in the adventure to explore the world and find the new species of dragons. It has five seasons, and I only watched two episodes of the season one. However, the sound effect brings to me an excited feeling when I view the episodes. Starting with the drum sound and the trumpet, the viewers can right away feel the spirit of adventure. Because the drum and the trumpet always relate to something unexpected and surprised, so the filmmakers choose them as an introduction to catch the audience attention. Furthermore, when Hiccup fights with the bad guys, these sound are once again emerging to describe the atmosphere of the fight scene. Until the mysterious scene, on the other hand, another sound arises. No more enthusiastic music, a deep, low tone music is replaced to fit with the enigmatic scene. In each different scene, the filmmakers know how to apply distinct music with the suitable one.

However, the sound effect only fully works when it combines with the pictures. In the mysterious scene, besides the music, the setting also combines with fog, the useful material which usually conveys the scary part. Furthermore, the moonlight is another factor which also contributes to the enigmatic message. The filmmakers are very clever when combining these two factors together because when mentioning about fog and moonlight, the audience can easily figure out the following scene. It will be jump scare or surprising element. The interested in using this technique is that it requires the audience to guess what will happen next. The more guessing game they play, the more unpredictable they will have. Moreover, the way the filmmakers draw the dragon is so realistic and creative. In some movie, sometimes the audiences feel that the animation seems unrealistic enough. Therefore, they will be bored soon, and do not want to watch the movie anymore. Dragon is a mythical creature, so drawing it is pretty difficult, especially when you want the pictures are real. However, the filmmakers have done a wonderful job: creating a realistic creature (although it is only an animation). Furthermore, although there are many dragons, all of them are different in shape with the different ability.

Although Dragons: Race to the Edge does not transmit any lesson or experience (or maybe because I have only watched two episodes of the whole series), sound effect and the animation are two reasons why you should watch, and I also.