Film Prep.

In today's lesson we learnt about diagetic and non diagetic sound. Although we hadn't come across these terms before, we had already began using them in our film.

Diegetic sound refers to the sound that both the audience and the characters can hear.


For example, in our film, we use the scary music box theme throughout our film to familiarize the audience with the on going sound on and off screen. It can also be the sound of the characters footsteps walking down the alleyway.

As we was filming we came across a number of background sounds which cannot be featured in our film. Since we do not want them included in our film, we have decided to mute all the sounds and find our own music ( the music box theme) to play over the top. This is known as the Post product Production.



Non-Diegetic sound refers to sound that only the audience can hear.


For example, in our film this could be a fast paced heart beat music created on garage band, such as jaws, to build up and create suspense. This will help the audience feel how the characters are feeling and reflect their emotions.

We haven't yet learnt how to use GarageBand, so were unable to create our 'soundtrack' however, we are hoping we will find a good soundtrack to play over the top to create suspense and tension to the film. We also thought to make it spooky we would have the "music box" song played over the top of the piece as well to make it seem as if the music box is following her, thus the killer is. This is called a sound motive, something that is played throughout the film. We think that this will then relate back to our title of "The Music Box" and hope that it makes it more clear for the audience what the film is about.