Environment that surrounds the actors and makes the visual diegesis for the audience; can tend to be minimal or not; it enables the audience to have visual anchors to orientate the events in the diegesis
Null
Characteristics:
- Enable sound to orientate the viewer
- Less visual anchoring for spatial orientation
Vast
Characteristics:
- Provides several visual anchor point to the audience
- The visual information being consequent might not leave sound to be actively focused on
Related effects: Extension
Related inductor effect: Narration; Framing