The opening scene from the prompt that was chosen was “Get Out” Directed by Jordan Peele. Then viewing the scene there are many examples of diegetic and non-diegetic sounds. The opening scene begins with a man of African American dissent having a conversation over the phone with his girlfriend saying “They got me out here in this creepy, confusing ass Suburb” insinuating that the character feels lost and uncomfortable in the moment. An example of diegetic sounds are the leaves cracking from under his feet, his heavy breathing, him speaking to himself trying to find the accurate direction to his destination and you heard the car driving and reversing behind him.

An example of non-diegetic sound was seen when the white car reversed closer to the character. The audience hears the song “Run Rabbit Run” by Noel Gray and Ralph Butler. The music was added to intensify the scene and have the watchers feel a certain “tenseness” and a feeling of uncertainty.

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The scene I chose is ‘Get Out.’ In this scene it is night time and you can hear the dogs barking and the crickets chirping. This represents a feeling of being lonely in the night time, which tends to make the viewer feel as if something scary or frightening will happen. The clip also starts off with a brief talk of the man talking on the phone, while walking on the side of a road. The moment this man gets off the phone he realizes that he is walking through a not so ‘happy’ neighborhood. While he is walking he is giving himself company by talking to himself, and not get nervous. Then, all of a sudden he notices a white car that starts to follow him. He stays calm and then gets a bit scared so he walks in the opposite direction. And then someone comes out of the car dressed as a knight and grabs him and puts him in chokehold. Then the man is dragged to the trunk of the ‘knights’ car and the car goes and drives away.

There are many diegetic sounds in this scene. The scene starts with footsteps, then sudden breathing, crickets chirping in the air, and then dogs. These can all be heard by him himself and the viewers who are watching. We can also hear what the man is saying while walking and talking on the phone. A non-diegetic sound that is brought up in the scene is the little bit of music that played when the car started to follow the man.

In the scene for Get Out for the diegetic sound you can hear crickets and dog barks, which amplify the feeling of being alone on a dark street making it feel a lot more eerie and creepy. He can here the squeals of the tire and the music that not a lot of people would listen to currently which further amplifies that isolation and creeps he feels and the audience feels from him walking down that street. The music he then hears then turns from diegetic to non diegetic as it the dynamics gets louder as he is knocked out. The Dynamic shift in the music is significant as it confirms that he is no longer aware of what is going on around him and the music is all that is left.

The film clip I had chosen was “Get Out” which was directed by Jordan Peele. In the clip you can see a young black man named “Andre” (IMDb) was walking through a darkly lit neighborhood, when suddenly a white car drives past him then makes a U-turn and stops right by him. Andre quickly walks in the opposite direction, but is surprised when someone attacks him from behind and is knocked unconscious and dragged to the car.

In the clip I had noticed some diegetic music playing such as when the white car approaches Andre, you can hear the music coming from the car. Another diegetic sound was the sound of footsteps by both Andre and his kidnapper. For nondiegetic music I had noticed a violin was playing towards the end of the scene. The diegetic and nondiegetic sounds/music in this clip adds to the spooky and scary effect of a horror film that leaves you in suspense, wondering what’s going to happen next. Moreover, when the car approaches Andre I noticed the dynamics of the music where it starts off quiet then gets louder, especially when Andre is attacked by his kidnapper is when the music climaxed. While the violin’s dynamic stays loud as the car drives away.

In the opening scene of “Get Out”, we can see a guy on the phone walking towards the camera. It looks like he was in the suburbs because of all the houses around. It was really dark and he looked like he was on his way to someone. Then a white car passes him and turns around to follow him. The car stops when it gets near the guy and keeps getting closer as he continues to walk. The guy continues to walk in the other direction and a few seconds later he is kidnapped and dragged into the back of the white car.

Some of the diegetic the guys foot steps, the crickets, the car going passed him and the guy speaking. All of these sounds the audience can hear and the guy can hear them as well. The non diegetic sound is the music that is playing in the background. The music adds suspense to the scene because the music sounds kind of joyful but in the scene we can see the guy getting kidnapped. We hear the joyfulness through the timbre of the song. We can hear all the major chords and the trumpet in the song. When I listened to the video without sound I felt like something was missing and I wouldn’t expect the song they actually played to be the song for the kidnapping scene. The song may have had some foreshadowing in it because it kept telling the rabbit to run away.

The one I chose was “Get Out”, it starts off with a male individual walking around in an unfamiliar neighborhood. He is in a call with may be his significant other and as he ends the call and begins walking, a white car drives by and turns around and starts heading toward him. He realizes that the car is tailing him and turns around saying that nothing bad will be happening to him today. He turns around to face the car and then realizes that the driver seat is open, and all of a sudden a male covered in black strangles him and drags him along into the trunk of the car.

Some diegetic sounds from the clip would be the male individual’s footsteps, the crickets chirping, the car coming into the scene, the music playing from the car. There is also a violin that is played as the driver drives off with the male. As the car approaches toward the male, we hear the song saying, “run rabbit, run run” which gives off an eerie feeling along with the dark empty streets.

Something I noticed was that they use crescendo when using the violin the end to add to the suspense of what is to happen to that male and also with the music when the kidnapper is dragging him to the car. The increase in volume intensifies the scene. In the end he gets kidnapped and it seems as if nothing happened because no one hears or does anything.

In the opening scene from Get Out, we see the character, Andre, walking in what seems to be a sketchy neighborhood late at night and he’s on the phone with somebody. A white car seems to be following him, the music gets louder and louder as he turns the other way to avoid the car, but he then gets kidnapped. The film itself is about a black man who goes for a weekend getaway with his white girlfriend and they end up trying to kidnap and brainwash him. 

The diegetic sounds I picked up were: Talking on the phone, Crickets, Dog barking, Car engine, Wheels screeching. There was no non-diegetic sound. I noticed that the music started off as diegetic, it came from the car and then became non-diegetic (it was both). 

I did some research and the lyrics are “Sikiliza Kwa Wahenga” translating to “listen to your ancestors” serving as a warning to Andre to get out, but then he got kidnapped. The music intensifies the scene and creates an unspoken implication of the situation and for what was about to happen. The music got louder and louder with a crescendo building up that suspense. You can tell because it was really quiet at the beginning of the film, you could hear crickets. Then Andre gets kidnapped and we watch the kidnapper shove Andre in the trunk and drive off, the music keeps playing like nothing ever happened.