{"id":2114,"date":"2014-11-04T08:55:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T08:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/?p=2114"},"modified":"2014-11-04T08:55:27","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T08:55:27","slug":"noises-off","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/noises-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Noises Off"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bernie Newnham<\/strong><\/h3>\n

After now more than 48 years in this business in various disguises, and 30 or so asking sound men to do stuff, I had never heard the word \u201cdiegetic\u201d before a student had it written all over some storyboards.<\/p>\n

Martin Eccles, Philip Tyler, Brian Curtis, John Howell, Tony Crake, Graeme Wall<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Must be new and trendy: \u00a0diegetic and non-diegetic are just posh media studies terms used when writing about film\/television sound (media studies wannabes use it \u00a0– posh terms are taught rather than any “craft skills”). \u00a0We didn\u2019t have a name for it: indeed there was no need for a name, the few ‘non-diegetic’ sounds within a mix would be referred to by name, eg. incidental music and narration.<\/p>\n

Diegesis is a Greek word for “recounted story” or \u201cnarration\u201d. \u00a0It is confusing how the Greek for \u201cnarration\u201d could suddenly switch to being the “actual sound” but need to remember that \u00a0Greek narration was done by an in-vision chorus.<\/p>\n

DIEGETIC SOUND<\/b><\/p>\n

Another term for diegetic sound is \u201cactual sound\u201d or \u201c in vision sound\u201d.Any sound whose source is visible on the screen or whose source is implied to be present by the action of the film: it is sound on set or sound that can be seen to arise from on set including passing traffic noise and music played on set band in the corner of pub or coming from radio\/ TV on set. Examples are:<\/p>\n