diegetic sound is when a song or sound is heard and is coming from inside the film world
non-diegetic sound would be a soundtrack to add atmosphere coming from outside the films universe or a voice over
dialogue, or when the characters are talking to each other is diegetic sound as it comes from inside the movie
ambient sounds such as crickets chirping are used to create atmosphere but can't be seen
sound effects can be used as either diegetic or non diegetic sound, having the sound of a gunshot would be diegetic sound and could be used because microphones aren't working
non-diegetic sound would be a soundtrack to add atmosphere coming from outside the films universe or a voice over
dialogue, or when the characters are talking to each other is diegetic sound as it comes from inside the movie
ambient sounds such as crickets chirping are used to create atmosphere but can't be seen
sound effects can be used as either diegetic or non diegetic sound, having the sound of a gunshot would be diegetic sound and could be used because microphones aren't working
In the famous shower scene from Psycho there is diegetic ambient sound of the shower is going on to add atmosphere, there is also the sound of the woman screaming which is a sound effect and the stabbing sound was made by recording the sound of stabbing into a melon. When the killer stabs her the there is non diegetic violin sounds used to mimic the stabbing motions with the knife.
In our OTS we wanted to use a news report as ambient sound that was relevant to the zombie outbreak in our OTS, something like this
In our OTS we wanted to use a news report as ambient sound that was relevant to the zombie outbreak in our OTS, something like this
in our OTS we were going to use heavy metal for the backing track because a lot of zombie horror movies have heavy metal soundtracks at first we decided to use downwith the sickness by disturbed
After consideration we decided instead of conforming to regular horror stereotypes we wanted to do something different so we decided to use a classical song, and after testing some out we found that Beethoven's moonlight sonata fit perfectly for our non diegetic atmospheric music