Non- Diagetic sound:
In the beginning, the girl fell asleep in class and there was a loud sound used to wake her up. This added a great deal of dramatic effect. This part of the episode followed a very creepy scene of a child singing a song in the hallway. The song can be defined as scary because of the low, creepy tone that the girl was singing in. In horror films especially, music is able to intensify scary or calming scenes depending on the goal of the director. This can be considered mood music. During this episode, there is intense music playing while the actors are sleeping and a white cloud is coming from them. The music becomes even more intense when the man who is collecting their voices is shown. This added to the horror of the episode.
Mise En scene
This video is set in a normal, everyday setting. Sets include homes, offices, and even casually walking on the street. They are wearing average clothes that could be worn any day of the week. The actors were portrayed as any ordinary person doing their daily routine. One example of this is when Buffy and the man she is interested in see each other. They are wearing normal clothes and seem to not have any voices. I believe that in horror films, the producers try to show their actors as normal people. I think that this adds fear into the audience because it makes them feel like it could happen to them and not just in Hollywood. It makes the aesthetics seem more real.
Diagetic Sound:
I was able to find the use of diagetic sound in the scene where the two men are in a lab and talking about Buffy. It was easy to head sounds like them climbing the ladder, a golf cart, and loud voices in the background coming through the speaker. These sounds, as well as the characters talking, are all examples of diagetic sound. I chose to use this scene because it comes right before the part where the characters lose their voices. Background noises that are subtle but most definitely present add to the horror aspect of films. Any small noise can keep an audience on the edge of their seats.
I also thought the singing added to the horror of the film. It was creepy. They had taken a simple, cute girl in a dress and made her in to something scary using digetic sound. It intensified the film instantly. I would challenge why the scene added to the horror of the film. I thought the background music set the mood for the film, not necessarily the the girl. Right from the start, the audience could tell what type of horror the movie would be.
I like your take on non-diagetic sound. I completely agree that background or mood music can change the entire feel of a scene. If there had been upbeat happy music playing, your idea of what was about to happen would be completely different. What about different music causes this effect? Its not like when something scary is about to happen in real life there is scary music — thus we are not trained to think scary music foreshadows something scary. What do you think causes this effect?