His cuts, perfectly timed with
the diegetic soundtrack, made the journey of a song cinematic.
Set against the crusty, propulsive keyboard plinks of Jefferson Starship's «Jane» (which opens both Wet Hot American Summer and its accompanying series), the trailer overrides American Honey's
diegetic soundtrack to give it the low - stakes look of a suggestive teen sex comedy (replete with comedic freeze frames and vintage title cards) rather than the sobering exploration of class and youthful recklessness it is.
Not exact matches
The
soundtrack preserves the careful mixing of
diegetic and non-
diegetic effects, most notably in how urban street sounds, particularly of traffic, are used to bridge studio - shot footage with location shooting.
Still, it is noteworthy that
diegetic music has not been adjusted for its treatment, thus sounding fuller on this alternate
soundtrack.
The
soundtrack is muted, with some
diegetic religious music but nothing like a traditional score; composer Brian Williams works more in unsettling scrapes and howls.
These tracks sound similar to these ears: deep, clean, with fastidious distinctions made between the
diegetic and non-
diegetic sounds, which is of paramount importance to a film that so precisely deconstructs itself, featuring a killer who provides her own
soundtracks for her murders, suggesting an artist in her own right.
By using Circle Percussion, a Dutch epic drums theatre group, we could combine all kinds of drumming sounds in our
diegetic music as well as in our
soundtrack - and all composers could «use» Niels, who used to be part of Circle Percussion, to record live percussion tracks.
In a medium populated by graphically noisy deaths, swelling
soundtracks and the constant ding of coin collection, Tangiers «use of
diegetic and industrial tones stood out.