Ultimate Guide to Diegetic vs Non-Diegetic Sound — Definitions, Examples, & How to Break the Rules

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This is a very inspiring teaching about sounds. Sound Design is another level of experience in the creative world. Thank you for this piece

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Can a cinematographer become a news cameraman or they're only meant to work at film sets?!😢

If you don't mind my asking then I'd like to know how important is to know the Film Grammer?!😅

I always notice that trans-diegetic thing when a character switches off his radio and the background music stops.

Could you please make video about simultaneous and non simultaneous sounds in movies?

LOL none of these directors were thinking oh what kind of sound is this? LOL bs

You not making these terms up 😃 I've watched so many studiobinders videos

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In the dinner scene from The Fisher King, Robin Williams breaks into song to serenade his date. When he begins the second verse, the orchestra non diegetically accompanies him and continues into the next scene

Listening to this on my run is quite meta.

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Fascinating!

Shout out to the Shaw Brothers, the Non-Diegetic Sounds of my childhood.

Diegetic sound is like a fart, or a burp, or a stomach gurgle. It's any sound that your digestive tract makes.

Excellent!!!

Thank you for the George of the Jungle clip. I needed to smile.

WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF DIEGETIC?
Diegetic, “happening within or being the created world of a story,” is a technical term used in literary criticism, both in ancient Greek and in modern English. Its Greek original is diēgētikόs, a variant of diēgēmatikόs “pertaining to a narrative;” Aristotle uses both variants in the Poetics with the noun poíēsis “poetry” (i.e., “narrative poetry”). Both adjectives are derivatives of the noun diḗgēsis “narration, narrative” and derive from the verb diēgeîsthai “to set out in detail, describe.” Diegetic entered English in the second half of the 20th century.

Can a sound be neither? In sci-fi, almost all shots in space will have the sounds of the weapons, engines, etc audible to the audience even though there is no sound in a vacuum. So it's not diegetic since there would really be no sound, but it isn't really non-diegetic since it is meant to be the sound of the thing that is happening on screen.

Am I the only one still a tad confused lol?

My favorite exception is in the tv show Archer, where a character, Cheryl Tunt, who is mentally ill, is startled by the non-diagetic orchestral stab, only to respond "don't pay attention to, it's non-diagetic"

Give a warning if you are going to play some of the most violent or disturbing scenes from R rated movies.

I love it ❤️

You know what would have been interesting, to play those scenes (which had been enhanced by the music) with no sound to really illustrate the point.

The most interesting thing about sound in movies still is that fact that most of it is fake. Most props in movies don't make the sound they would do in real life. Most props are designed in such a way to make as little sound as possible to not disturb important sounds in the scene or dialogs and if you want a prop to make a clearly noticeably sound, they are overdubbed with sound from a sound studio that has not been created using a similar prop at all but creates the kind of sound most viewers expect to hear that moment. The advantage of overdubbing is that you can make it sound more real than the real thing and you have perfect control over pitch, echoing and loudness in the scene. If you see a character pressing a light switch in close up and you can hear that light switch in the movie, you can bet that what you hear is not the sound the light switch produced that you are actually watching, it may not even be the sound from a light switch at all but just some other thing that makes a similar clicking noise.

my daughter is studying sound production. I have something that I can talk about with her. Thank you.

Non filmmaker here, but huge film fan! I’m loving this channel! So, I simply must now ask a question: What about the way Star Wars: Andor used its music? I saw in a BTS show about it that the orchestra was on set the entire filming period so that they were playing the music that was attached to the scene as the scene was being filmed. Generally, scene orchestration would be non diagetic, but this is music that the actors hear as they act out the roles, and some would say that therefore the characters are hearing it to.

In the Scrubs episode "My Musical" during season six, JD and Turk sing a song called "Guy Love" in front of their patient who has an aneurysm that's about to blow that makes her hear music. But in season seven, Turk's ringtone for JD is guy love.

Was the song creatively diegetic or JD and Turk really did take the opportunity to sing their song in front of a woman who heard music, rather than talking as a means of mocking her condition?

Or it was an in-joke.

It did appear one last time in season nine, but it was fully diegetic in that final iteration.

My favourite switch is the harpist in Bananas (Woody Allen)

wait, the matrix kung-fu sound effects are non-diegetic?

Started watching the Netflix series Blood & Water with my girlfriend. I literally couldn't focus due to how bad the film sound was, in combination with horrible music choices. It's the first time something like that has bothered me. Especially in contrast with how pretty the scenes were. Lighting and such. Looked like high budget in combination with the quality of an interns first day at work in the sound department without any previous experience.

Swiss Army Man would’ve been a perfect example for either the Trans-Diegetic or Creative Exception categories (not too clear on which would fit).

But it’s brilliant because it’s never too clear if the characters can hear the background music when they sing, but they clearly react to it. And it’s also brilliant and brain melting because the audience is never actually told if the story itself was all in Hank’s head or truly his reality.

Not the movies and not sound but I used to love when the old US TV show Green Acres would display the (supposedly non-diegetic) onscreen credits and the characters themselves would comment on them, e.g. “Whose names are those?” It completely fit the totally absurd, surreal quality of the show.

It's funny, this is actually one of the real lessons they actually taught me in Film school.

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The non-diegetic sounds in “Uncut Gems” had my on edge, the pacing of the film and sounds made my heart race. Literally had to go to another environment outside the theater immediately after to decompress.

Are there any other schools actually teaching this?

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My favourite musical moment is in Grosse Pointe Blank. It starts with non-diegetic Live And Let Die which cuts to a diegetic musak version inside the convenience store.

I've had it with examples of the Last Jedi.... it's a shitty movie.....just unsubdcribed......