At 13:22 through 14:44 in the Hush episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is the focus of the article.
Mise-En-Scene
-This point in the movie actually has an example for each of the three criticism terms all wrapped into one scene. As for the example of mise-en-scene, the lighting all of the sudden turns to darker areas as it signifies that something mischievous is happening. The man who enters on the screen, only his arms can be seen but they are decrepit and seem to not have been taken care of for years. These costume choices give an impression that extends beyond the normal person on the show. He comes in and is trust into the “bad guy” role simply by the lighting, what you see of him, and the framing of the shot that does not allow the audience to see the rest of his body until his horrendously creepy face is revealed. The mise-en-scene aspects add extra personality to the character that will set him up for the rest of the episode.
Non-Diegetic Sound
-To start the scene the music begins to swell and increases until the music screams when the man’s face is revealed. The music is not intended to be a result of the actions on screen but instead a helping effort to enhance the importance of the moment. The music draws the viewer in to the action, exclaiming that something is happening. This scene is one of the first times that the director uses a non-diegetic and this makes it much more important as to the effect on the episode.
Diegetic Sound
-Throughout the episode what seem to be the souls of the many slip out of the mouths of the people at night and fly toward a box that was opened by the man. These “souls” or “whispers” have a quiet wind sound as if they are actually physically moving through the air. They also have whispering voices that slightly make a noise as they fly to the box. The diegetic sound is clearly coming from the “souls” or “whispers” and a sound that is coming from something on screen. The sounds coming from this gives the objects more life as to that this not just an unnoticeable occurrence. To the contrary, this would be viewable to anyone had they been awake.
The reason I chose this scene as the example for all three of the criticism terms is because not often do all of the terms work together in such harmony.
5 comments so far
1:56 am - 2-14-2014
Hi, Jordan. I really enjoy your post about three example of non-Diegetic-, Diegetic sound and Mise-En-Scene. I think the most useful part for director to demonstrate a scared hint would be the non-diegetic sound because it is an unusual sound that we won’t hear it in our daily life. According to the Carroll(2007）， he states that:” Thus, to a large extent, the horror story is driven explicitly by curiosity.” Director trying to use different kinds or processional knowledge to build a scared atmosphere for audience. What do you think of those specific movie terminology？ Do think that understand those terminology can be more helpful when you watching a scared movie? What do you think of the difference between man and woman when they think about watching a scared movie?
7:07 pm - 2-14-2014
Jordan, your breakdown of non-Diegetic, Diegetic sound, and Mise-En-Scene was well thought out and very well explained. Your examples were clear and although I did view the videos already, if I hadn’t, I liked that the visuals you gave were accurate. I do however wish you would have gone into a bit more detail on the technicality of the pieces. Maybe some more background on horror filmmaking would have helped with the context of what you were discussing!
2:57 pm - 2-16-2014
Jordan, your analyze of the Non-Diegetic Sound is also what I have found. Sometimes, I do think the high sharp, loud sound does scare me a lot. I also found such combination of sound contributing to build scary environment in most scene. For example, when I want to scare someone, I’d like to give them a shock by showing up with shouting immediately after hiding behind the door. It plays almost same effect than the movie showed me, I think. The scare atmosphere is made by changing sound from really quiet to really high and loud, from girl face to the monster face, from the harmony class room in the day light to the empty class room night. All of these can be stimulation for people.
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