Micro feature - Sound

AS Media Studies - Sound

During Media studies we have being looking at many different type s of techniques that make a good film. One of the things we have been learning about is sound. We learned different types sound in a film such as:

• Diegetic sounds
• Non-Diegetic sounds
• On screen sound
• Off screen sound
• Parallel
• Contrapuntal

Diegetic sounds:

The term Diegetic refers to the world of the text. Examples include: dialogue, sound effects, music with a source within the text e.g. a radio.

Non Diegetic sounds

Non Diegetic refers to everything outside the world of the text. Examples of non diegetic sounds include; voice overs, soundtracks, captions, titles and subtitles.