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If two people are speaking to each other in a film, that is non diegetic sound. True or false?

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In a film, a band is playing "Don't stop me now" by Queen while the characters dance at a party. Is that diegetic or non diegetic music? 

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Non diegetic

Neither of the two options

Diegetic

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music is music which inside the film world, or diegesis. The term diegetic can be applied to sound in general and not just music: for example, characters to each other or a car door in a particular scene could be considered sound, because the sounds are found within the film .

An example of diegetic music can be found in “Back to the ”, where Marty McFly performs Johnny Be Good on .

Non diegetic music is musical sound whose is not located in the film world. Traditional film underscores usually fit this category.

For example, in “Jaws”, the famous leitmotif is heard only by the . As comical as it would be, there is not an chasing the around the performing the famous two-note !

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In which film does the character called Sam sing "As time goes by?"

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Mary Poppins

Les Choristes

Psycho

Casablanca

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In which film do a group of friends organise a surprise perfomance of "All you need is love" by The Beatles during a wedding?

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Harry Potter

Mississippi Burning

Love Actually

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

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Who wrote the music for Jurassic Park?

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John Barry

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

John Williams

Alberto Iglesias

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The shower scene in "Psycho", directed by Alfred in 1960, is one of the most in scary movies. You can see the difference between the use of music here as opposed to the use of diegetic music: here we have non diegetic music because the characters cannot it, the is not part of the story (we can't see anyone or an instrument or putting on a record). It does not form part of the they are living in. But for us , it is fantastic! This music makes the shower scene very !

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