LA1. Understanding The Purpose Of Diegetic And Non-Diegetic Sound

Diegetic sound:

Diegetic sound is any sound presented as originated from source within the film's world. Diegetic sound can be either on screen or off screen depending on whatever its source is within the frame or outside the frame.

Non-diegetic sound:

Non-diegetic sound is represented as coming from the a source outside story space.  This is additional sound added on for the benefit of the audience (e.g. an extra soundtrack or a voiceover).  The distinction between diegetic or non-diegetic sound depends on our understanding of the conventions of film viewing and listening.

Unknown. (Unknown). Diegetic and non-diegetic sounds. Available: http://filmsound.org/terminology/diegetic.htm. Last accessed 28/02/2020.

There is an example video that further explains the usage of diegetic and non-diegetic, the lady explains the differences or examples of how diegetic has mise-en-scene, in-world music, and in-world sound effect and with non-diegetic is narration, external graphics, cinematic score, and added sound effects. The lady gives further examples from movies and how the background music is non-diegetic because its not heard in the film studio, its only heard for the audience same thing goes to the narrator because the actor can't hear the narrator but the audience can. In other film, she explains how a guy playing the drums in the background is diegetic because it can be heard both by the actors and audience.

The clip is from The Amazing Spider-Man 2, this clip shows both diegetic and non-diegetic, the part of the scene show Peter Parker watching the news in his own TV, the sound coming out from the TV is diegetic because its on the set which both the actor and audience can hear the TV. It is effective because audience can hear what Peter is hearing to have this insite of what the character is hearing or something like that. Few minutes later into the clip, it goes into a montage when Peter searches on Google about President Roosevelt and there is music in the background in which it turned to non-diegetic because the actor can't hear the music but the audience can, this was made for the sake of the audience to make the scene more enjoyable if there was no music then the scene will be boring and also they have to put in the right music into a scene because if for example the directors of the movie put a sad music into a happy scene, it won't make any sense so they have to put the right music on a scene like the one from below, when Peter is finding something the music is all happy, upbeat, and exciting which gives the audience that feeling excitement of what Peter is trying to find.