Keighley Garside Film A level Blog

Diegetic and non diegetic examples Diegetic - sound of the music at Benny's party, knife sharping at the beginning. Non diegetic - voice over of Rocket, music that is not part of the action.  Significance of the voice over - 1st person narrative Rocket, photographer/documenter.                                    ↓              Photographers highly accurate, report what they see.  Non fiction - real, based on a true story, adds truth. Very calm and confident with the way he talks, this also adds to the accuracy and the fact he is an outsider. Contrapuntal sound which is opposite from the action where he should be scared by he isn't. Significance of music -   Benny's party scene - contrapuntal sound as martial arts is all about discipline and about self defence which is complete opposite to wha...

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly fantasy scene starts with very uplifting music with him remembering his life and then the realisation sets in when he realised he can't do those things again and that he took life for granted. All he has is his imagination which is why it is uplifting and then when he realised that's all he has that why the music starts to get sadder and more depressing. The sound bridge at the end to show that he is thinking about what we have just seen.  The shaving scene the lack on sound make the audience focus on the task which is being carried about and want the audience to make up their own mind on how to feel about what is happening through the way the venerability is shown by the shaving his father stubble off his face. The diegetic sound of the razor just makes it more realistic because that is the sound you would hear if you were in the same room as the person being shaved this makes the audience member feel like they are th...