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Non-diegetic insert
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In film studies, diegesis refers to the story world, and the events that occur within it. Thus, non-diegisis are things which occur outside the story-world.
A Non-diegetic insert is a film technique that combines a shot or a series of shots cut into a sequence, showing objects represented as being outside the space of the narrative. Put more simply, a non-diegetic insert is a scene that is outside the story world which is "inserted" into the story world.
- Three images shown during the disastrous opening night of the play in The Band Wagon, as a metaphor to highlight how much of a flop the show is.
- Sky sequences shown in Gus Van Sant's Elephant.
- Most famously in The Great Train Robbery a bandit, either following the character's death or before the narrative began) shot his gun directly at the audience.
- Diegesis
- Non-Diegetic
- Heterodiegetic