2. Recap Quiz
1. What is diegetic sound?
2. What is non-diegetic sound?
3. Is a narrator diegetic or non-diegetic?
4. What is ambient sound?
5. A character turns on the radio and we hear
music, is this diegetic or non-diegetic sound?
3. Sound and setting
• Diegetic and non-diegetic sound can help create
information concerning the different settings that
are evident within a film
• Contemporary or past time
• The diegetic sound of wind in leaves, for example,
coupled with a soundtrack of haunting strings, could
effectively generate a sense of potential danger of a
place
5. Character theme
• Indicate the status of the character within the
scene or the film as a whole
• Be used to indicate the impact of a character
on other characters within the scene or the
film
• Can you think of any examples….
6. Whose are these character themes
• Character 2
• Character 3
• Character 4
• These may tell us the status of a character but
what about how someone is feeling?
• How a character perhaps may feel to another
character?
8. What genre are these?
• Genre sound clip 2
• Genre sound clip 4
• Do they tell us more than genre?
9. Music creates mood
How does music create mood
Listen to the following music and discuss the
mood and feeling it creates:
Mood music 1
What music do we expect the hear during a
death scene?
Not correct music
10. Garage Band
Each group will create a short story, using
garage band you will create the music to
accompany the scenes.
Consider a genre of TV drama or a
representation that it could allude to.
