Starring:
Judy Garland as Dorothy
Frank Morgan as The Wizard of Oz / Professor Marvel / The Gatekeeper / The Carriage Driver / The Guard
Directed by: Victor Fleming
The dialogue or “spoken words by two or more characters in a scene” is a must to understand what is happened and what is taking place throughout the film (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2014). Without the dialogue, you would not be able to process the entire film. With the dialogue and the music that is being performed by the characters is called diegetic (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2014). This also helps to create the musical scenes in which Dorothy is singing with a number of characters throughout the film. The sound effects are natural sources that match the sources on the set.
In the movie clip “We’re not in Kansas anymore”, you can hear birds chirping which represents diegetic, because it is natural sources that match the sources on the set. Dorothy can hear the birds chirping. However, the musical accompaniment is not something that Dorothy can hear (represents non-diegetic) as it starts to build with excitement that her and Toto are not in Kansas anymore, but somewhere over the rainbow. The scene also makes Munchin land very spring like with flowers growing, birds chirping, and beautiful. When Glenda comes in on her bubble, the sounds from the musical accompaniment, grows louder and louder and from mysterious to excitable as she emerges from her bubble. This also infers to the fantasy genre as people normally do not come in on a bubble. With the birds chirping, that is a more realistic sound that people associate with spring. If the more realistic sounds were taken away such as birds chirping it would take away the spring like feel of this scene.
Goodykoontz, B. & Jacobs, C. P. (2014) Film: From watching to seeing (2nd ed.). San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.
(n.d.).(1939). [Movie Poster]. Retrieved on April 30, 2015. Retrieved from: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Movieclips.(1939). “The Wizard of Oz: We’re not in Kansas anymore” [VIDEO FILE].
Retrieved from You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQLNS3HWfCM