Archive for September, 2006
Meditating on Mediation and Mimesis
Once you begin to discuss a broader application of diegesis in the context of the camera and the viewer, one that goes beyond simply internal/external diegesis in regard to sound, frame and narrative, you invariably must also consider other parameters of engagement and viewership. The non-diegetic viewer might be considered to place the concept of a ‘diegetic effect’ into a new pane of conceptualization.
Tan (1996) defines the diegetic effect as that which draws the “beholder in a position that is defined in relation to an imaginary space behind the window formed by the picture plane and the frame” (p. 53).”
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