During the house break in scenes we decided to use only diegetic sound our Short is a documentary. They rarely use non diegetic sound to increase tension etc as this detracts from the real life feel of it and we wanted ours to have a real life feel to it.
To make up for the lack of non diegetic sound we plan to use a lot of close ups of Paul's feet and what he will be doing while breaking into the houses to help increase tension. We also felt that just the diegetic sound could work quite well to help raise tension as it will leave the audience expecting something to happen but unsure when it will happen.
As for the interviews of the family and Paul during our Short some of what the people are saying will be placed over the top of footage of Paul breaking into houses as this kind of use of the vocals of an interview is often used in documentaries and we thought it was an effective technique and we should also use it.
This is Stranger Than Fiction, a Short which plays around with diegetic and non diegetic sound, especially voice overs which would be similar to when the family is being interviewed about and then placed on top of shots of what he is doing.
I felt that when the voice over stops and you can only here diegetic sound that is quiet it can add a lot of suspense to the footage (although used in this Short for a slightly comical effect I think that it could also work well to create suspense in our Short).
In Stranger Than Fiction the voice over at the start is only present when the man has the toothbrush in his mouth. This gives it a slightly comical effect and I don't think something similar would work well in our Short. Instead the voice overs and narration should come and go sporadically to help create suspense and allow the audience to become better positioned with Paul.
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