Sound

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melodrama

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music drama

combined spoken text with music

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digital sound

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most radical change in sound system

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synchronous sound

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visible onscreen source

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asynchronous sound

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no visible onscreen source

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diegetic sound

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source in the narrative world of film

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nondiegetic sound

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does not belong to the character's world

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diegesis

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the world of film stories

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semidiegetic sound or internal diegetic sound

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construed as thoughts of a character and thus as arising from narrative world of film

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sound designer

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involved to plan and direct overall sound through to the final mix

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sound recording

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takes place simultaneously with the filming of the scene

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clapboard

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when the slate is filmed it is snapped

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boom

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a device resembling a fishing pole where the microphones are placed

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direct sound

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sound captured directly from its source

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reflected sound

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capured as sound bounces from the walls

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postproduction sound

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after the cut is prepared postproduction sound begins

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sound editing

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interacts with the image track to create rhythmic relationships, establish connections between sound and onscreen sources, and smooth or mark transitions

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spotting

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the director consults with the composer and the picture and sound editors to determine where music and effects will be added

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foley artists

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may generate sound effects

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postsynchronious sound

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recroded after the fact and then synchronized with onscreen sources

often preffered in the dialogue used for the final mix

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automated dialogue replacement

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actors watch the film footage and re-record their lines to be dubbed into the soundtrack also known as looping

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walla

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assembling extras to create the sound of the crowd

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room tone

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the aural properties of location when nothing is happening

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sound mixing

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re-recording
can occur only after the image track is complete

refereed to as locking picture

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mix

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final track to match the film

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sound reproduction

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stage in the process when the film's audience experience the film's sound

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soundtrack

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voice, music and sound effects are the three elements of soundtrack, present simultaneously

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sound perspective

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apparent distance of sound source

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overlapping dialogue

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mixing character's speech simultaneously

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voice-off

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speaker inferred to be present but is not visible

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narrator

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person introducing the story

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voiceover

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a text spoken by an off screen narrator

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women's pictures

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women's voiceovers rarely carry through to closure

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talking heads

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on camera interviews, usually shot medium close up

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leader

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a strip attached to the beginning of a reel of film sometimes used to project a black image onscreen

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synchronization

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the visible coordination of the voice with the body from which it is emanating

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underscoring

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background music

music underscores what is happening dramatically

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cue

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a piece of music composed for a particular place in the film

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click track

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holes punched in the film to keep the beat of the action

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stingers

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sounds that force us to notice something significant

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mickey-mousing

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over illustrating the action through the score

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music supervisor

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selects and secures the rights of songs to be used in films

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sound montage

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composed of separate elements whose relationship can be creatively manipulated