Music as Diegesis

[woops]

i admit i only said that 'cos he uses the term second-order. but yeah maybe @Clinamenic should watch out for his collected essays.

 

[sufi]

Like the previous film, Sing 2 features songs from many artists, most of which are performed diegetically.

 

[woops]

it has a slightly different but i think related sense when talking about film music: diagetic music is when, for example, there's a band on stage in the film, and non-diagetic music is when it's overlaid on the soundtrack.

 

[version]

It isn't restricted to music either; Altman would have dialogue overlapping scenes.

 

[woops]

all nicked off isidore isou

 

[woops]

i've just been reading his biography and his film treatise on slime & eternity (predictably) "scandalised" (parisian) audiences with its use of what i can now call non-diagetic dialogue. in 1951. probably there films with voiceovers before that.