I decided to look closely at the 32:20-32:46 section in the episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. At this point in the episode one of the blonde characters had just left her room and was now walking outside. During this walk there was digetic sound, you could hear the characters footsteps as she walked along the grass. You then hear the sound of her tripping over the sidewalk then of her picking up all of her books that she dropped when she had tripped. You can also hear the noises that the books are making as they are being stacked onto one another. While she is picking up her books, she hears a clicking noise and begins to slowly turn her head; at that moment suspenseful music begins to play representing non-digetic sound. The music starts slowly but as the character realizes what she sees and that she is in danger the music gets louder and more suspenseful. The mise en scene of this section of the episode first indicates that it is night out. When the character is initially walking on the grass you can tell she is in some type of hurry and has a look of concern on her face that she looks behind her twice, the second time causing her to trip. As she is picking up her books the camera has all the focus her but in the blurry distance you see the gentlemen monsters. At the moment that she begins to hear the clicking noise behind her she has a very stunned look on her face. As she then begins to turn her head the camera is zoomed to where you can only see her face, as she recognizes that the monsters see her she grabs her things in a hurry, and at this moment the camera shifts blurring her out and focuses on the smiling gentlemen monsters.
I decided to choose this specific scene to demonstrate mise en scene, digetic sound, and non-digetic sound because I felt that is demonstrated each section appropriately in such a short scene. These examples demonstrated what the main point to the episode was, which was that these said gentlemen were monsters and were a danger to all. The most interesting part on this scene was that the blonde character did not initially scream, even though watching the other initial encounters of people with the gentlemen they had all screamed or produced a small gasp knowing that no one would be capable of hearing them. All three components were needed to fulfill the aesthetic of horror to the video. The sounds of her footsteps during the night gave a very eerie tone to the scene, as the audience you almost suspected something bad was going to happen to her. As the suspenseful music played as the character turned her head you knew that the gentlemen would see her and that the goose chase would begin for her heart. The way in which the camera angles focused on one character at a time added to the idea of horror and suspense as the audience knew what was about to occur before the character knew about her surroundings.
After I read your article, I think your example is very good. You choose in scene to show how mise en scene, digetic sound, and non-digetic sound work in this special scene. You are not only explain about those three important points in a movie, but you also explain how it will be when people put all three points together. Of course, I believe when people use all those three things to make a movie, it will very close to the perfect. When the audiences watch this movie, they will have a full range of sensory, they will feel very real and just like they are the heroes of this movie and they will be very fear just like the heroes in the movie and think about the real death is very close to them. I believe that is why people like to watch the 3D or 4D movies because more sense organs of them will be driven and they will have an immersive feel. Finally, I want to ask a question, which one is more important for a movie to be good, content or immersive feeling?
It is vey hard I think to pick between what makes a movie good, content or immersive feeling. Without either the movie would be lacking a content that is needed. In my opinion I think a good movie find a balance between content and the emotional connection one makes with it. If you look at all the different genre of movies, they all will evoke some type of emotion. Some people may like action films more than a comedy film because of the feeling and involvement of the film. That is why some people do enjoy watching horror films, as an audience you already go into the movie theater knowing that you will most likely get scared, who don’t know how or when, but you know it will happen. The content of a horror film all run in a similar bases, there is always some type of monster, serial killer, or demon that is present in the film and is what causes an audience to be on the edge of their seat. The content in any film is what provides the audience to have that immersive feeling, so a movie needs both in order to appeal to an audience.