More Sound

For our Media homework this weekend, we had to watch a film and pick out some diegetic and non-diegetic sound.
I watched 'Pitch Perfect', and found both of these elements in one scene.

(I apologise for the fact the clip is in German, I couldn't find it in English but the language doesn't matter.)



At the start of the scene you hear the song 'Open Season' by the High Highs. This the main character Beca cannot hear, making it Non-diegetic sound.

Further on in the clip Beca is in her room watching 'The Breakfast Club'. She hears the characters talking through her headphones but we watching Pitch Perfect can hear them too, so in a way this is Diegetic sound that we shouldn't be able to hear (which makes it a bit of both).

As the film ends, you (and Beca) hear 'Don't you' by Simple Minds, and you think it's Diegetic as she watches Judd Nelson walking across the field, but when she takes her headphones off you realise the music has switched to become Non-Diegetic that Beca can no longer hear.

For an effective film opening, I see that I need to think carefully about how I combine diegetic and non-diegetic sound. I could do something like this.