Diegetic sound

Diegetic sound

 

Sound whose source is visible on the screen or whose source is implied to be present by the action of the film:

 

    voices of characters

    sounds made by objects in the story

    music represented as coming from instruments in the story space ( = source music)

 

Diegetic sound is any sound presented as originated from source within the film's world

 

Digetic sound can be either on screen or off screen depending on whatever its source is within the frame or outside the frame.

 

Another term for diegetic sound is actual sound 

 

    Diegesis is a Greek word for "recounted story"

    The film's diegesis is the total world of the story action