The Third Class

Today as a class, we have learnt what a diegetic and a non-diegetic sound is. As this class was a introduction to something completely new to me, at first, it was really hard for me to adapt to the class as I did not really know what was going on. After a while, I have started to understand the differences between diegetic, and non-diegetic sound; a diegetic sound is when the sound comes originates from a film, for example, the ringing of a phone in the scene, the sound of door creaking etc. A non-diegetic sound is when the sound does not originate from the film itself, but is added in to create a psycological effect, for example, if the film was a horror film, the editor would obviously add some suspenseful background music to the film to enhance the mood of the film.

To start the unit of sound studies in film, we have gotten into groups of 4 or 5 to search for different sources of sound using a boom and headphones for sound precision. Some sounds that we needed to find was the sound of water, youth, danger, emergency, silence etc. Throughout this lesson, we have found most of the sounds that represent these words' definition.