In the film 'train spotting' both Digetic sound and non-Digetic sound are used throughout the film,I am going to focus on the opening scene to thks film.
It starts with a voiceover Of the main character 'Renton', this is an example of Non-diagetic sound as it is not a part of the scene that we are watching. After this music gets played on a radio in the house they are in,this is diegetic sound. Then sound of a baby in the background comes on, this may shock the audience that a baby would be in that kind of household with them type of people. Another Digetic sound is heard when we hear the footsteps of the main character as he gets up from lying on the floor in the house. All of the sounds in the background will show how unsettled the house they are living in is.
As the scene goes on you see 'Renton' speaking the to 'mother superior'. You hear them talking about Renton's plans to stop taking drugs. mother superior comes across as he has heard all of this before and seems to think this time won't be different and Renton won't stop taking the drugs. after his conversation with the mother superior Renton then walks off because he can tell he wasn't believing him. Then a new voiceover starts,this voice over is also the voice of Renton,while speaking in the voice over Renton is talking about his conversation that he just had and said how he will in fact quit the drugs but he says "Of course I have another shot",he says this with confidence. Then a sound bridge is used,this is when sound is used to make the next scene flow in and connect with sound. The sound used is a train. This is also a contrapuntal sound because this sound has nothing to do with what we just watched in the scene. This might be used to confuse the audience.
Then the sound of the train mixes in with the noice of Renton's key entering the door to his small and basic flat. Music is then played in the background,this is also an example of non Digetic sound because it is played outside of the living world we are seeing within the scene we are watching.
Another voice over is used, this is Renton speaking again. Here he is talking about what he is going to do for the next 48 hours while he is trying to quit the drugs, while this voice over is still going on we hear the noises' of Renton nailing pieces of wood over the door so he can't get out of the flat while he try's to stop taking drugs,this is Digetic sound because we can see it is coming directly from the scene. The attention is then brought back to Rentons voice over, here he is saying what else he needs to help him get through the next couple of days. As he is speaking he starts to say the food and drink he will need,we hear the noice of the tins as he puts them down, this is Digetic sound, while Digetic sound is being used we can still hear the non-Digetic voice over,as he is placing the food and drink down Renton speaks as if he is reading of a list rather than just Saying what he will need. Doing this makes Renton seem serious about his decision to quit drugs and how determined he is to do it. While Renton is speaking classical music is being played in the background this is a non Digetic sound and acontrapuntal sound because the type of music does not match the 'mood' of the scene and it does not seem like the type of music you would assoiaoate with the people you are watching.
Then Rentons voiceover finishes,however this classical music continues to play. We hear Renton on the pay phone talking to a man called 'mikey Forrester'. He aks Mikey if he can 'just help him out'. After the phone call the classical music picks up and goes more dramatic,this is non Digetic sound. We then see mikey with two large pills in the palm of his hand passing them to Renton, his non- Digetic voice over then comes back on and he says 'this is typical Mikey',this tells us that Renton must regularly go to get drugs of him. Renton's voice over stops and be replies "what the fuck are these?" to Mikey talking about the pills he had tried to give him. This creates a comedic affect to the audience.
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