Buffy Horror-Unit 6
While watching this show, I chose the first scene when the characters aren’t able to talk. The blonde girl wakes out of her bed and starts to brush her teeth. As she is walking back to her room she sees a girl running in the hall crying. She then returns to her dorm, where her friend, the red head, is waking up. This is when they first realize that they cannot speak. They are all startled and don’t know what is going on. I really enjoyed this scene due to the mystery as well as the non-diegetic and diegetic noises that are presented.
To discuss the Diegetic sound within this scene, I would have to talk about the noise affects made by the characters. Although they are not speaking, when they pick up the phone, or open/shut a door, the sound that it makes is a diegetic sound. When the man wakes up and realizes that he can’t speak, he then calls the girls. The sound of the phone dialing and ringing is another example of how this scene uses diegetic noise.
The non-diegetic noise within this scene would be the composition of thrilling music in the background. In order to make the audience feel something, the director must incorporate some non-diegetic noise to make up for the silence of the characters. The fast paced, exhilarating music is a prime example of how this scene creates thrill.
There are many examples of mise-en-scene in this scene because when describing the mise-en-scene, that is the set, the props, the outfits, actors, angles, performances, etc. We see the tooth brush, the bathroom, the beds in the dorm room, the telephone that the man uses to call the girls with, etc. All of these are great examples of mise-en-scene. Mise-en-scene is the key factor to media. Without the set, props, and background, it would not create a proper setting that would make the audience believe it was real.
November 6th, 2014 at 9:35 pm
I thought all of the examples you gave for diegetic sound, non-diegetic sound and mise-en-scene were awesome and correct. First of all, it was true that in this video, many scenes, including different lighting effects and settings, could be counted as examples of mise-en-scene. I still remembered the scene you talked about as the example of diegetic sound. I believe the example was correct because according to the Aesthetics of Horror Presentation, “any voice, musical passage, or sound effect presented as originating from a source within the film’s world is diegetic.” As we could see from the scene that all the sound that made my phone, door were from the video itself. On the other hand, the non-diegetic sound example was also believed to be correct because “it originates outside the film.” As mentioned in the lecture that the non-diegetic sound might create a dramatic effect of horror for the video. When I looked back the video again, it was scary.