Definition:
A megaphone is a device used to amplify sound.
Etymology:
The word “megaphone” comes from the Greek words “mega” (meaning “great” or “large”) and “phone” (meaning “voice” or “sound”). The term reflects the device’s purpose of amplifying sound.
Description:
The old-fashioned megaphone is just a cone with openings, where you input sound into the small opening, so it get’s expanded out the big opening.
A modern megaphone is a loudspeaker with a microphone. Inside the cone, there’s a speaker-cone known as a diaphragm (a cone in the opposite direction) responsible for producing sound waves by vibrating in response to electrical signals.
Symbolism:
A megaphone is often used to direct a crowd of people, meaning it’s used to give orders for people to obey. This makes megaphone a hypnotic symbol.
In the shortfilm “In-Shadow: A Modern Odyssey (2017)” a symbolic composition appears of a man in a dark suit whispering a red mist towards the back of the head of a movie director who has been given an award. The movie director is talking into a megaphone, with a camera in front of him, symbolizing that the director is just forwarding orders. Click to watch the video clip.
