We watched an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer this week and were looking for diagetic, non-diagetic and mise-en-scene examples. At the beginning of the clip we see almost immediate mise-en-scene. The scene starts as her in a college classroom and the teacher ask her to come to the front and lay on the desk. Next, a man comes to her and says don’t worry; if I kiss you the sun will go down. The camera zooms in slowly to their faces, and the room is silent except for their kisses. As the camera zooms out, the classroom is empty and dark and no longer a classroom, it is a church seen. This is eerie because being in an empty dark, cob web filled room that has transformed from you full classroom into a church is creepy.
Secondly, there is an example of diagetic almost immediately after the classroom/church seen. Buffy walks out of the room hearing a little girl singing. Coming from the set change right before, this add creepy effect. The little girl is singing softly, standing all alone in a dark, quiet hallway, dimly lit, also creepy. She is singing about someone coming to take people and then says “you’re gunna die screaming but you won’t be heard”. That is creepy within itself.
There was also some diagetic sound following this scene. When Buffy was daydreaming in the previous scene, she was kissing a guy. It is implied in the next scene she is into that guy. I can infer this based on the non-diagetic sound. She is discussing weather or not he had been a person in her dream. The music in the background is light and airy, almost fluffy, with violins, harps, guitars and triangles. The tinging of the triangle makes the scene seem lighthearted. The combination of his and her actions mixed with the flirtatious does not contribute to the aesthetic horror of the video.