diegetic

He also talks about trying to ground the show in realism by using only diegetic music.

This is why, in the cinema, we may refer to the film's diegetic world.

When these songs are included, they originate from a diegetic source.

The characters in the narrative can hear the siren of a police car so it is diegetic.

Even though my film was meant to be silent, I still wanted there to be diegetic, or natural sound.

Diegetic sound is that which is to have actually occurred within the story during the action being viewed.

Most of these tracks are diegetic music from the following feature films:

These competing discourses struggle to achieve hierarchy in diegetic terms.

The film score makes extensive use of classical music, both diegetic and non-diegetic.

Since the menus are diegetic, opening them does not pause gameplay.

There has not yet been a diegetic explanation.

Again, when viewed with the images the diegetic and non-diegetic sounds are separated out.

Eventually, the film's narrative contrasts the main subject against what the diegetic Warhol represents.

It is one of the few pieces of music in the film that is diegetic.

It replaces all other diegetic sound effects except for the occasional distant police siren.

In a sense, the viewer becomes the diegetic audience, as the performer looks directly into the camera and performs to it.

It used as a diegetic track in Driver: San Francisco.

The soundtrack of the film is largely diegetic; background music is not widely used.

We wonder if this sound is "diegetic" – the film-studies term for "actually happening".

For example, my film is silent (accept for natural, diegetic sound) with intertitles.

In contrast, when a song occurs literally in the plot, the number is considered diegetic.

All music in the film is diegetic music or "source music," usually presented as coming from a radio.

The main body of the film uses minimal narration, usually in the present tense and always underscored with diegetic sound.

Stockburger (2003) describes this distinction by using the terms diegetic and non-diegetic.

Diegetic numbers are often present in backstage musicals.