Media - Sound Keywords

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  • Created on: 06-10-14 20:10
Define: Diegetic Sound
Sound that is part of the world of the story so can be heard by the people existing in the story world
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Define:Dialogue
Conversation between the characters
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Define: Ambient Sound
Background sounds that would have been picked up during filming e.g. footsteps, water running, bird song, rainfalling ect.
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Define: Silence
No sound
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Define: Non-diegetic sound
Sound that is not part of the world of the story (so nobody existing in the story world could ever hear it)
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Define: Voiceover
Narration/character thoughts added in postproduction
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Define: Synchronous sound
Sound that is appropriate for what is happening on the screen
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Define: Asynchronous sound
Sound that contradicts the action and does not match what we see on screen
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Define: Sound Motif
A sound that is repeated and becomes associated with a particular mood, character, action
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Define: Sound perspective
Sound that is clearly heard by the audience in the way that a particular character hears it.
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Card 2

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Conversation between the characters

Back

Define:Dialogue

Card 3

Front

Background sounds that would have been picked up during filming e.g. footsteps, water running, bird song, rainfalling ect.

Back

Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

No sound

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

Sound that is not part of the world of the story (so nobody existing in the story world could ever hear it)

Back

Preview of the back of card 5
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