Toy Story: Pizza Planet Truck

I used this scene from 0:00-1:41.

Two main topics of sound represented in Toy Story’s gas station scene are listening modes and space.

For listening modes, the scene mostly contains casual sounds. These include tires screeching, doors slamming and squeaking, footsteps, and actual voices. Casual sounds are literal interpretations of events that occur within ones environment. This makes perfect sense for Toy Story because the movie is based upon reality as humans see it. When analyzing the casual sounds that occur, most of the dialogue, footsteps, etc., are diegetic. There are two instances in which sound contained in the scene is non-diagetic. This occurs when we hear a symphony song begin to play as Buzz becomes aware of the ‘spaceship.’ The second instance, when heavy rock music begins to play as the Pizza Planet truck speeds away, could either be diagetic or non-diagetic. It is debatable because we do not physically see the driver turn on the stereo.

Space plays a large roll in this scene. There is a combination of flat and deep sound paints a picture even when you close your eyes. When Woody and Buzz are talking to one another, the sound is flat. However, when Buzz walks away from Woody, the sound becomes deep and echoes, providing an image of space between characters. Deep sound is also prevalent when we hear conversations between the pizza delivery guy and the gas station attendant in the distance. The camera controls the types of sound we hear, creating a point of perspective for the audience.