Diegetic Sound

• Diegetic sound: It is any sound where the source is visible on the screen, or is implied to be present by the action of the film:
  • Voices of characters;
  • Sounds made by objects in the story; and
  • Music, represented as coming from instruments in the story space.
  • Music coming from reproduction devices such as record players, radios, tape players etc.

Part of my research for the D & AD Brief is into Diegetic sounds - a technique used in filming and animation:



This Milky Bar Kid advert is a great reference and inspiration to my MTV Virus idea ( D & AD Brief). You can hear where the sounds are coming from which slowly build up to an overall rhythm. Very similar to my concept.

There are also books i am reading for my dissertation involving diegetic sound as a film technique. These are discussed in more detail in my sketchbook (D & AD), writers such as:

Elisabeth Weis - Film Sound: Theory and practice