The scene uses very little music apart from the diegetic sound of the soldier's radio, Coppola instead opted for the majority of sound in scene to come from gunfire, yelling and screaming and explosions. This makes it clear for the audience to see the chaos and that the soldiers of the bridge outpost don't exactly know what they're doing.
Lighting is also played around with in the scene. The majority of the scene is dark however lights move in and out of the scene brightening things up. The lights are incredibly bright which creates a large contrast from the darkness that the scene was shrouded in when the lights aren't there. This could represent how the outpost is not in order and is instead all over the place and, like the lighting, are inconsistent. This is made evident from when Willard asks the soldier who the commanding officer is and the soldier responds with 'ain't you?' this implies that there is no commanding officer as he was most likely killed and the soldiers have just been taking their own actions without leadership or orders
Most of the character in the scene have either given up on fighting, such is the case with the soldiers who are sitting around doing nothing with one even lying motionless on the ground to the point when Lance mistakes him for a dead corpse, or are panicking and attempting to fight off enemies. The only three who remain calm are Willard, Lance and Roach. While Lance is only calm due to being high on acid, Willard keeps a stoic face throughout the entire scene. He is unfazed by chaos surrounding him as if he has seen all of it before. The Roach also keeps a level head throughout the scene judging by how the other soldiers act around him, he appears to hake taken on the role of pseudo leader among some of the soldiers at the outpost.
