Sound info

It was recently brought to my attention that I haven’t really touched on diegetic sound. Which is true, besides the music we want to use, were also going to use diegetic sounds. Stephanie and I were thinking of maybe making the song in the intro, “Be Ok,” seem like a diegetic sound. Since its a song we inserted into our video, it wouldn’t be an actual diegetic sound coming from the film environment, but we could make it seem like the song is coming from the car radio. If not we would just stick to making it background music, so that way we could fade it out when the protagonist enters her house instead of it ending abruptly as the car is turned off. I’m having trouble imagining how the songs would transition into the scenes, so I’m going to look into some more film openings and different movie scenes to see how they transition to different songs/sounds smoothly. Another diegetic sound that we would have would be the protagonist’s voice. As the protagonist walks into the house and notices the disorder, there are going to be clatter sounds, and the protagonist is going to be talking/yelling at the sister. She calls out for her sister and slightly scolds her for leaving the house in such a big mess. All of her dialogue would fall under diegetic sounds. Depending on how it sounds, we might also add footsteps to add more tension to scene. We’re also considering skipping the suspense music all together and adding more sounds from the environment. I feel that if we were to go this route that it would make the film more realistic and possibly create more suspense. I’ll let you all know what we decide to do.

"Diegetic and Non-diegetic Sounds." FilmSound.org. Web. http://filmsound.org/terminology/diegetic.htm