Sound Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
CONCEPT ONE: Non Diagetic
Stage direction: [Everyone laughs very loud. Big Daddy is famous for his jokes at Big
Mama’s expense]
Concept:
● I will use a combination of the live diegetic laughing on stage produced by
actors
● On top of this I will use a prerecorded non diegetic soundscape
● To produce this soundscape I will use the diegetic sound of laughing and
increase the frequency to a shill, high pitched, piercing sound which will then
reach a crescendo by the following line ‘Here he is, my precious baby’ until it
decreases in intensity to 0%.
● This will display Big Mama’s attempt to diffuse the tension
● The soundscape will play through all of the speakers in the theatre to display
that this is an all consuming feeling of humiliation.
● This displays how much the joke has affected Big Mama, as the soundscape
represents what the laughing sound like to her intrinsically.
● Through this I will be able to present the undertones of misogyny in Williams’
text
CONCEPT TWO: Diegetic
Stage direction: [singing ‘dear big daddy’] / ‘big momma will you quit horsing’
Concept:
● Use live sounds to convey the party atmosphere going on below the bedroom
● Including floor microphones catching people’s footsteps across the stage floor
in high heels and leather small heel shoes, Glasses clinking and fans whirling
as well as a high pitch female laugh building to a crescendo and a male low
pitch laugh with the slow building intensity of 20% slowly building to 40% on
the line….
● With the childish children singing ’dear big daddy’ and ‘how old are you’ at a
diverse low pitch at 25% and high pitch at 40% to made to sound shaky like
the children are singing it
● Conveys the rising tension within the atmosphere
Diegetic consent
- On big daddys line ‘sorry! Turn it back’
- Big daddy will use a gesture where he throws his hand back in anger towards
his son not living up to his expectations of being athletic, like big dad wanted
to be wanted to be
- The gesture will knock of a sugar glass wine glass from maggies dresser
CONCEPT ONE: Non Diagetic
Stage direction: [Everyone laughs very loud. Big Daddy is famous for his jokes at Big
Mama’s expense]
Concept:
● I will use a combination of the live diegetic laughing on stage produced by
actors
● On top of this I will use a prerecorded non diegetic soundscape
● To produce this soundscape I will use the diegetic sound of laughing and
increase the frequency to a shill, high pitched, piercing sound which will then
reach a crescendo by the following line ‘Here he is, my precious baby’ until it
decreases in intensity to 0%.
● This will display Big Mama’s attempt to diffuse the tension
● The soundscape will play through all of the speakers in the theatre to display
that this is an all consuming feeling of humiliation.
● This displays how much the joke has affected Big Mama, as the soundscape
represents what the laughing sound like to her intrinsically.
● Through this I will be able to present the undertones of misogyny in Williams’
text
CONCEPT TWO: Diegetic
Stage direction: [singing ‘dear big daddy’] / ‘big momma will you quit horsing’
Concept:
● Use live sounds to convey the party atmosphere going on below the bedroom
● Including floor microphones catching people’s footsteps across the stage floor
in high heels and leather small heel shoes, Glasses clinking and fans whirling
as well as a high pitch female laugh building to a crescendo and a male low
pitch laugh with the slow building intensity of 20% slowly building to 40% on
the line….
● With the childish children singing ’dear big daddy’ and ‘how old are you’ at a
diverse low pitch at 25% and high pitch at 40% to made to sound shaky like
the children are singing it
● Conveys the rising tension within the atmosphere
Diegetic consent
- On big daddys line ‘sorry! Turn it back’
- Big daddy will use a gesture where he throws his hand back in anger towards
his son not living up to his expectations of being athletic, like big dad wanted
to be wanted to be
- The gesture will knock of a sugar glass wine glass from maggies dresser
