SOUND DESIGN The total sonic experience

* Diegetic Sound  The sounds in a movie that the characters CAN hear  Examples: Dialogue, Natural Sounds, Sound Effects  Inception, Christopher Nolan (2010) Inception, Christopher Nolan (2010)

*Non-Diegetic Sound  The sounds in a movie that the audience hears, but the characters DO NOT  Example: The score, soundtrack, voiceover narration  **Used to set the mood and evoke emotion Example Example 2ExampleExample 2

Sunset Boulevard, Billy Wilder (1950) *Voiceover A voice whose source is neither visible in the frame nor implied to be offscreen; it typically narrates the film’s images

*Overlapping Dialogue  Mixing characters’ speech simultaneously  Many times the background sound is turned down, so the viewer can concentrate on the dialogue between the two main characters.  Used to achieve realism or to distract the audience (causes the audience to have to listen and pay closer attention)

**Score  The music written for a movie or play