Scene Analysis: The King's Speech

Introduction
The chosen scene is the opening scene of The King’s speech. A scene in which the main character is to make his first public speech, at an outside stadium, whilst it being broadcasted on the radio. With the sound of a soft wind, stammer from the main character and a recurring static from the microphone the tone has been set for the scene. A tone of discomfort. Purpose
The purpose of this analysis is to examine the sound used and created for the first scene of The King’s speech. A scene in which sound has been used to create a complex feeling of embarrassment and slight discomfort for both the fictional characters as well as the audience.
Bringing a deeper understanding of the cinematic sound and a stepping stone for the film’s narration.

Questions

It is verbally in intelligible, avoiding emphasis on the meaning of the text, yet serves as a kind of silhouette or emanation of the characters.” (Sonnenschein, pg.157)

The Dukes speech during his first broadcast could be identified as emanation speech due to his speech difficulties. The disability to not being able to pronounce certain words and thus with a stammer, puts focus on the way he speaks rather than what he says. Being a primary characteristic of his personality also points towards the term of emanation speech. (emanation)

”Nearly all story-comprehension researchers agree that the most common template structure can be articulated as a ”canonical” story format, something like this: introduction of setting and characters– explanation of state of affairs–complicating action–ensuing events–ending. […] early statement of the protagonist’s goal permitted the perceiver to fill in the casual and temporal connections more exactly. […] Thus the format can be recast as: setting plus character–goal–attempts–outcome–resolution.”
(Bordwell, David 1985. Narration in the fiction film. London: Methuen. pg.